The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c14.s2.51

c14.s2.51

To Jīmūtavāhana, the founder of the Dāyabhāga school, belongs the credit of liberalising the law still further in favour of the widow. We have seen above (*ante*, p. 268) that he would not include inherited property under Strīdhana. This was so, because he wanted to disarm social opposition to his revolutionary proposal to make the widow an heir to her husband, even when he was a member of the joint family at the time of his death. While anxious that every widow should inherit her husband’s share in the joint family property, he wanted to prevent it from going outside the family to Strīdhana heirs. He therefore did not include it under her Strīdhana.