History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.127.4

v4.c63.t2.127.4

The latter is then and there capable of conferring spiritual benefit while it is problematical whether the unmarried daughter will confer spiritual benefit (since she may after all be blessed with no son after marriage). Aparārka (p. 721) and V. R. (p. 517) give three meanings of the word 'apratiṣṭhitā' viz. 'childless, poor, widowed'. In deciding whether a particular married daughter is indigent as compared with another, the Courts refuse¹³⁷³ to go into nice or minute questions of the respective monetary positions of their husbands and prefer one to the other only if there is great disparity or marked difference between their positions.