History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.232

v4.c63.t2.232

The Dāyabhāga, strarting with Baud. Dh. S. (I. 5. 113 ff), Manu (IX. 186-187) and the Matsyapurāṇa elaborates its own definition in the following¹⁴³⁴ way. A man's son and a daughter are both born in the family. The daughter's son springs from the family of his maternal grandfather but he belongs to another gotra (viz. his own father's gotra); similarly, a man's sister (i. e. father's daughter) is born in his family but her son, though mediately sprung from the deceased owner's family, belongs to another gotra (viz. that of the sister's husband): the same is true of a father's sister's son and the paternal grandfather's sister's son. A sister's son offers a piṇḍa to the father of the deceased, as the owner's father is the former's maternal grandfather and therefore he is connected as sapiṇḍa with the owner. A father's sister's son offers a piṇḍa to the paternal grandfather of the owner, who ( paternal grandfather ) is the maternal grandfather of the father's sister's son. A maternal uncle is not sprung even mediately from the family of the owner, but he offers a piṇḍa to his own father who is the maternal grandfather of the deceased owner. Therefore the maternal uncle or his son or son's son being connected with a piṇḍa that is offered to the maternal grandfather or maternal great-grandfather respectively of the deceased owner is a sapiṇḍa of the deceased owner. A maternal aunt's son also offers a piṇḍa to his mother's father, who is also the owner's mother's father and so the maternal aunt's son is a sapiṇḍa of the owner. The piṇḍas offered to the maternal ancestors by him are inferior and secondary. Further, one's own mother, the father's mother, father's father's mother were associated with their respective husbands as to the piṇḍas offered to the male ancestors and the same holds good about the wives of the maternal ancestors also.¹⁴³⁵