History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.404

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¹⁵⁴⁰ रिक्थं मृतायाः कन्याया गृह्णीयुः सोदरास्तदभावे मातुस्तदभावे पितुरिति बौधायनस्मरणात् । मिता. on या. II. 146; the दायभाग makes of this a verse as रिक्थं... सोदराः स्वयम् । तदभावे भवेन्मातुस्तदभावे भवेत्पितुः ॥ '. The मदनरत्न (folio 106a) reads it as रिक्थं ... समम् । ... तदभावे पितुर्भवेत् ॥; मातापित्रोरभावे तत्प्रत्यासन्नगामि । व्य. प्र. p. 552. The above passage of the Mit. is referred to in *Gandhi Maganlal v. Bai Jadab* 24 Bom. 192 (F. B.) at p. 211 (where it was held that a paternal grandmother in Gujarat inherited the wealth left by her maiden grand-daughter in the absence of nearer heirs, that she took an absolute interest and that on her death the property goes to *her* heir and not to that of the grand-daughter.