History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.105

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¹³⁵¹ अथापुत्रस्य मृतस्य धने परस्परविरुद्धवचनदर्शनेन व्याख्यातारो विवदन्ते । दायभाग XI. 1. 1; एतद्विरुद्धजातीय वाक्यानि लक्ष्यन्ते । मिता. on या. II. 135. It may, however, be noted that in a small treatise called श्वश्रूस्नुषाधनसंवाद of which there are three Mss. in the Maharaja's Sarasvati Mahal Library at Tanjore (Nos. 19003-5 described in vol. XVIII of their new Descriptive Catalogue) an attempt is made to establish that, if a man dies leaving a widow and his mother, both take equal shares in the estate. The mainstay of the argument is a verse of Kāt. quoted in the व्य. मयूख 'भोक्तुमर्हति क्लृप्तांशं गुरुशुश्रूषणे रता । न कुर्याद्यदि शुश्रूषां चैल पिण्डं नियोजयेत् ' from which the conclusion drawn is 'श्वश्रूश्वशुरादिशुश्रूषणे रतायास्तदक्षमायाः संयतायाः तदितरायां च सर्व्यां पत्न्या धनहारित्वं नान्यथा '.