India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s2.6

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s2.6

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c12.s2.6

CIVIL LAW—Of the various items of *Vyavahāra*, only inheritance is referred to in the *sūtras*. One who inherits is called *dāyāda*, and the property which he inherits *dāyādya* (*Dāyādyaṁ dāyāde* VI.2.5). The *dāyāda* was designated according to the object in which he had beneficiary interest, *e.g.* if of several claimants one had an interest in cows, he alone was called *go-dāyāda* (II.3.39).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit