History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.145

v4.c63.t2.145

It may be noted that in his Vaijayantī (on Viṣṇu Dh. S. XVII. 5–6) Nandapaṇḍita appears to have preferred a daughter-in-law to a daughter; but he stands practically alone in this. Vide Jolly’s T. L. L. p. 199 and p. 286 for quotation which however is not found in the D. C. Ms. No. 69 of the Vaijayantī. The daughter-in-law is not an heir at all in the whole of India, except in Bombay (where she inherits as the widow of a *gotraja sapiṇḍa*). The Bālambhaṭṭī criticizes Nandapaṇḍita without naming him and holds that a daughter-in-law inherits only as a gotraja and not before a daughter.