History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.414

v4.c63.t2.414

then probably to the married daughters; (III) anvādheya1545a and bhatṛprīti-datta (husband's gift of affection) are inherited by sons and unmarried daughters together in accordance with Manu (IX. 192 and 195), (if there be no unmarried daughters) by sons and married daughters, then daughter's issue, then son's sons; (IV) other¹⁵⁴⁶ kinds of technical strīdhana devolves as under the Mit.; (V) non-technical¹⁵⁴⁷ strīdhana is inherited in the following order; sons, son's sons, sons' sons' sons, daughters, daughters' sons, daughter's daughters. When there is no issue of the woman the succession depends in all cases as under the Mit. on the question whether the woman was married in an approved or an un-approved form. The V. Mayūkha employs language somewhat different from that of the Mit. in speaking of the inheritance to strīdhana when a woman dies without issue. But it has now been judicially held that both mean the same thing¹⁵⁴⁸.