Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.856

c7.856

(2) Several divided coparceners (*vibhakta dāyāda*) may again unite their inheritance afresh. They are then called Saṃsṛṣṭin or Saṃsṛṣṭa and are heirs to one another on failure of male issue, at the exclusion of the other relations (Gaut. 28, 28; M. 9, 212; Vi. 17, 17; Y. 2, 138; Bṛh. 25, 76). But there is also the opinion that such a reunion could take place only so far as the movable properties are concerned because all the Sapiṇḍa relations have equal claim upon the immovables (Hār. 4, 22; Prajāpati). The well-known obscurities of the passage Y. 2, 139, which has been so much commented upon¹, are probably due to a corrupt reading of the Mit.; if with Apar. it is read *nānyodaryadhanam haret and sodaryo nānyamātṛkaḥ*, then we have the simple meaning that step-brothers can never be heir to one another, not even if they are "reunited"².