Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.855

c7.855

The frequently diverging statements in the Smṛtis about the Stridhana and its inheritance have been a rich field of activity to the critical acumen and hair-splitting disquisitions of Indian commentators and the English judges have found in the still more conflicting teachings of the latter a congenial field to apply their art of exposition. Thus, for instance, an almost endless discussion accumulated on the truly highly sophistical deduction of the Mit. that by Stridhana, in conformity with the etymological meaning of the word, every favourite property of the woman is to be understood and therefore every such property should be transmitted according to the particular system of heirship which has been followed in the Smṛtis in connection with the Stridhana i. e. the peculium of the woman.