History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.401

v4.c63.t2.401

According to the Mit. there are two lines of succession to strīdhana, one for śulka and the other for all other kinds of strīdhana. Śulka, acc. to the Mit. that quotes Gaut., devolves first on the full brothers, then on the mother.¹⁵³⁹ Some like the Subodhinī, the Dīpakalikā, Haradatta on Gaut. 28. 23 hold that it devolves on the mother first and then on the full brothers; but many works such as the Dāyabhāga IV. 3. 28 (p. 95), Sm. C., Par. M., V. P., V. C. follow the Mit. It is somewhat strange that the Madanapārijāta p. 668 (which was really composed by the author of the Subodhinī in the name of his patron Madanapāla, holds that the śulka is first taken by the brothers and then by the mother. This raises a doubt whether the printed Subodhinī is correct or whether the author changed his opinion.