Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.822

c7.822

It is perhaps no mere accident that just these two authors insert also the Bandhu before or after the distant family members. The expression Bandhu is of course uncertain and may signify any relation in general.³ Yet primarily the brother of the mother is understood by it and according to an oft-quoted text,¹ there are in particular nine Bandhus : the sons of the sister of the father, the sons of the sister of the mother, the sons of the brother of the mother, then the sons of the grandfather's sister, grandmother's sister and of the grand-father's brother and finally the sons of the maternal grand-father's sister, the maternal grandmother's sister and the sons of the maternal grandmother's brothers.