History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.243

v4.c63.t2.243

The D. B. says¹⁴³⁷ that the word 'gotrajaḥ' (mas. singular) is employed by Yāj. for excluding all sapiṇḍa women (except those that are expressly named as heirs by special texts), since they are not born or (even mediately) sprung from the family of the owner, as the sister's son or the father's sister's son that is held by it to be so sprung, that the word '*bandhu*' is employed by Yāj. to include a maternal uncle and the like among heritable sapiṇḍas, since they are not sprung even mediately from the *kula* of the owner and are also not of the same gotra, that the maternal uncle and the like come in only after all descendants in the lines of the paternal ancestors inclusive of the great-grandfather up to the latter's daughter's son are exhausted,¹⁴³⁸ and that Manu had not to enter into these details as its two verses (IX. 186-187) were quite enough to lead to all that has been elaborated by the D. B. about the working of the theory of religious efficacy.