The Law of Inheritance from the Mitacshara. A Commentary by Vijnyaneswara on the Institutes of Yajnyawalcya

Consequently the fourteenth in descent from the first SamanodAkA and the thirteenth in descent from the man himself are his SAmänodakas for in the one the fourteenth ancestor shares in the libation offered by his descendants of equal degree and the father of the man partakes of the libation offered by the man himself and his descendants in the thirteenth degree. [...] In the laws of one people the rights of primogeniture are established ; in those of another the equal succession of all the male offspring prevails ; -while the rest allow the participation of the female with the male issue some in equal others in unequal proportions. [...] In the selection of notes from commentaries and other sources the choice of them has not been restricted to such as might be necessary to the elucidation of the subject as it is exhibited in the English version ; but variations in the reading and interpretation of the original text have been regularly noticed with the view of adapting this translation to the use of those who may be induced to st [...] He revives the position by answering that objection ; and the notion is this the injunctions regarding acceptance and the like accomplish property ; and they will become relative to the religious ceremony through the medium of goods adapted to the performances of the ceremony ; as the inisking of grain which effects the removal of the chaff concerns the a eligions ceremony through the medium of [...] 13 classes in the direct or inverse order of the tribes (as the driving of horses which is the profession of the Sutas and so forth) is indicated by the word earned" (nirvishta) for all such acquisitions assume the form of wages or hire ; and the noun (nervesa ) is exhibited in the tricandi t as signifying wages.