ivyAvAsthA&DARPANA - . I 5.1 () Rotá—That is; appointed to continue the male issue. Akritá.—Not so. The term puttrikā-puttra'signifies either son of the appointed daughter, as is said by Bashishtha : “This damsel, who has no brother, I will give unto thee, decked with ornaments: the son, who may be born of her, shall be my son:” or that term may signify a daughter becoming by special appointment a son; accordingly she is mentioned also by Bashıshriia “ a son second in rank : that is, the appointed daughter is considered to be a son second in rank." Mittikshará. According to J. Mu'tavahana—“The appointed daughter is as it were son (puttra); and her son is deemed a son's son (poultra); and her father, to whom he (thus) appertains, becomes grandsire wf soms's som.” Celeb.. Dá. bhá. p. 158. - According to Hemádri, -puttriká-puttra is of four descriptions. q. v. (b) The expression “no son" implies the failure of son, grandson, great glandson, and wife; since the daughter's right accrues on failure of these. Sai Krishna's comment on Liyabhāya. 50. The daughter who is barren or who is a sonless widow (m), is not competent to inherit, notwithstanding the failure of the daughter who has, and the daughter who is capable of bearing, a son.” - For they can not confer benefit (on their deceased father) by presentation of the pārvana oblation through their sons.” This opinion of Diksmita has been respec.ed even by the author of Dúyabhága. - r * > . .3 ه. - (m) By the term “souless widow” is here meant the widow who did not beget a son, or she who had a son that afterwards died, consequently,– 51. Neither the daughter whose son is dead, but who has son's son, nor she who has a female issue, inherit, though they were not barren.f Coleb. Dig. vol. III. p. 49l. - 52. The right once vested in a daughter does not cease until her death, notwithstanding she be barren, or a widow who has not borne a son but daughters only. - Because these cannot, like degradation, &c., destroy the heritable right. 53. The daughters, who are not entitled to inherit, are however entitled to maintenance from their father's estate, if they be destitute of the means of support, and the income of the estate be Bufficient. - |-roo; * - Because in the text of Ўвилsгат. :—“With kavya and pārta, let the widow honor the paternal uncles of her husband, his spiritual parents, and daughter's sons, the children of his sister, maternal uncles, and also old and unprotected persons, guests and females of the family"—the females of the family, i. e. the widows of her husband's son, and the rest have been declared objects of support.: - - . . . ●
- See W. Dá. Kra. Sang. p. 9–Coleb. Dá bhá. p. 185–Macn. H. L. p. 21.-Elb. In P. 76. f Coleb. Dig. Vol. III. p. 491.--Macn. H. L. p. 21. £ Vide. V. D. p. 103, 108, & 107.
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