History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.206

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¹⁴¹⁸ अनन्तरः सपिण्डाद्यस्तस्य तस्य धनं भवेत् । Manu IX. 187. Vide Bühler's note on this in S. B. E. vol. 25 pp. 366-368 for the varying interpretations of commentators. Bühler is not right when he emphatically says: "On philological grounds it seems to me improbable that 'anantaraḥ sapiṇḍāt' can mean anything else than 'nearest to the sapiṇḍa' and that this sapiṇḍa can be anybody else than the deceased". In the first place the singular 'sapiṇḍāt' can be easily interpreted as used in a generic sense (*jātāvekavacanam*) i. e. as meaning 'sapiṇḍebhyaḥ' (from among sapiṇḍas). In Āp., Bṛ. and other works wherever inheritance is spoken of, it is the *inheritor* who is required to be the *sapiṇḍa* or *bāndhava* or *sakulya* and the deceased is hardly anywhere spoken of as the sapiṇḍa of the inheritor but rather as 'mṛta', 'svaryāta', 'dhanin' &c. The verse of Manu is variously read. अनन्तरः सपिण्डो यस्तस्य तस्य धनं भवेत् । व्यव नि. p. 451, मदनरत्न (folio 100 a); यो यो ह्यनन्तरः पिण्डात्तस्य तस्य धनं भवेत् । ... तदेतद् धारेश्वरो व्याचष्टे यो यो ह्यनन्तरः पिण्डादित्यत्र पिण्डात्सपिण्डादित्यर्थो द्रष्टव्यः । स्मृतिचं. II. 301; व्यवहारसार p. 254 reads as यो यो as in स्मृतिच. 'अनन्तरः सपिण्डाद्य इत्यनेन यः सपिण्डात्सन्निहितः तस्य सपिण्डसंनिहितस्य धनं सपिण्डस्य संनिहितस्य धनं भवेदिति विहितत्वात् । सुबोधिनी p. 71.