History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.437

v4.c63.t2.437

¹⁵⁵⁹ वृद्धौ च मातापितरौ साध्वी भार्या सुतः शिशुः । अप्यकार्यशतं कृत्वा भर्तव्या मनुरब्रवीत् ॥ मेधा. on मनु IV. 251 quotes part of it as स्मृत्यन्तर, while the मिता. on या. II.175 ascribes it to Manu. This verse is cited in *Savitribai v. Luxmibai* 2 Bom. 573 (F. B.) at p. 597 (which holds that a Hindu widow voluntarily living apart from her husband's relatives is not entitled to a money allowance as maintenance from them if they were separated from him at the time of his death and that she is not entitled to such maintenance from them whether they were separated or unseparated from him at the time of his death if they have no ancestral estate belonging to him in their hands). The texts of Manu, Yāj. 1. 76 and Nār. are held on p. 598 of that report to impose a personal obligation enforceable by the State. Vide *Raja Rama Rao v. Raja of Pittapur* 45 I. A. 148 at p. 154 where it is stated that the grandson is not included under the word 'son' and a grandfather is under no personal obligation to maintain a grandson if there is no ancestral property in his hands.