History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.1146

v4.c63.1146

Kāt. distinguishes between *śauryadhana* (reward given by the king or a master when pleased with a soldier or servant who putting his life in danger did an act of valour) and *dhvajāhṛta* (what is recovered in a battle after putting one's life in danger of death and after putting to flight the army of the adversary). Nār. (dāyabhāga 6) and Bṛ. (S. B. E. vol. 33 p. 381 verse 78) appear to put both under *śauryadhana*. Kāt. divides the *bhāryādhana* of Nār. and Bṛ. into two, viz. *kanyāgata* (what is obtained at the time of marriage with a maiden of the same caste) and *vaivāhika* (wealth that comes with one's wife). So it is the same as the *vaivāhika* (of Manu IX. 206) and the *audvāhika* (of Yāj. II. 118). Vyāsa mentions¹¹⁰⁰ a limitation that even wealth acquired by valour does not become the exclusive property of the acquirer if he used a horse and weapons belonging to the joint family; in such a case the acquirer gets two shares and the other members of the family one share each.