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The Law Code of Devala 4.5: Bālambhaṭṭī (Lakṣmīvyākhyāna) · Dāyabhāga · Smṛtiratnākara (Vivādaratnākara, Kṛtyaratnākara…) +4

Devalasmṛti (fragments) 4.5

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Sanskrit

4.5

kanyābhyaś ca pitṛdravyād deyaṃ vaivāhikaṃ vasu | aputrasya tu kanyā svā dharmajā putravad bhavet

Devala said: / “One should avoid the whole country of Triśaṅku for twelve yojanas, / to the north of the Mahānadī and to the south of Kīkaṭa.

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To the daughters the wealth for their marriage is to be given from the father's property; and for a sonless man his own lawfully born daughter is like a son.

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