vyAVASTRA-DARPANA. 790 1. “Mule issue of the body being left, the property must go to them.*.”—Boudhāyana. II. “Let daughters divide their mother's wealth; or, on failure of daughters, her male issue,”--Nărada. iII. “But, on failure of daughters, the inheritance belongs to the son.”- Kātyāyana. IV. “Daughters (i) share the residue of their mother's property,” after payment of her debts; and the male issue succeeds in their default.”—Jányaralkya, (i) The word “daughter,” in the text of Yojnywalkya, having the termination of the first or nominative case, and the pronoun (“their”) having that of the fifth or ablative, eannot be connected with the term “issue,” by construction, which requires the sixth or relative case. But this term governs the word “mother” notwithstanding the intervention of mediate terms. Thus then, with the certainty, that “issue of the mother” is here intended, it is reasonable to interpret issue of the mother [as signifying son] in the texts of Wärulu and Κάινάranυ : for there can be no contradiction [since the passages must be presumed to be grounded on the saine revelation.] Moreover, conformably with the text of Houdhāyana, “Male issue of the body be y ing left, the property go to them ;" and because [the son, as immediate issue of the nother, is] nearer of kin [than the daughter's son, who is a mediate descendant;] it is reasonable, that the son born of her body should have the right of succession to his mother's property, and not the daughter's son, who is a mediate descendant not born of her person. Coleb. 1)a, bha. pp. 84, 85. Thus by the terms “inale issue,” in the above text of Jágnyaralkya, the right of the son to succeed on failure of daughters is declared.—See DáyakrumaSangraha. p. 47. • 449. In default of the son, the daughter's son inherits.t For it is reasonable that, since the daughter's claim is preferred to that of the son, the son of the debarred son should be excluded by the son of the person who bars his claim. W. Da , Kra, Sang. p. 48. - 450. Failing the daughter's son, the son's son succeeds, and in his default the great grandson in the male line.t According to the degree in which benefits are conferred by them. W. Dao. Kra. Sang, p. 4*. 451. In default of the great grandson in the male line, the son of a rival wife succeeds.t o Coleb. Daí bha”, pp. 82-85. W. Daí, Kra. 8ang. p. 48. * The cause of daughters being preferred to sons, and daughters' sons to sons' sons, in the succession of the stridhan received at nuptials, appears to be that a male child is procreated, if the seed predomi‘e, but a female, if the woman contribute most to the fetus. Thus Masu :--" But a boy is in truth ... duced by the greater quantity of male strength, a girl by a 醬 quantity of the female by equaు དྷི་སྭཱ་ས་ཏྭ། or a boy and a girl; by weakness or deficiency, is occasioned a failure of concep 。就羲瑟。警。*。 - f W. Dar, Krar. , p. 48. Coleb. Daí, bha', p. 100. Coleb. Dig vol. III. pp. Macn. H. L. vol. 1. p, 40. Elb. In. ;: р р Dig pp Authority. Conelusion. Vyawusthä. Vyavastha', Vyawawtha'
