History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.553

v7.c93.553

²¹⁶⁴ सारस्वतौ भवत एतद्वै देव्यं मिथुनं देव्यमेवास्मै मिथुनं मध्यतो दधाति पुष्ट्यै प्रजननाय। तै. सं II. 4. 6 1-2 This occurs in relation to चित्रायाग in which seven subsidiary offerings are prescribed of which two are सारस्वत. सारस्वतौ means ‘सरस्वतीदेवताक. सरस्वद्देवताकश्चेत्युभौ सारस्वतौ’. The पू मी सू is ‘मुख्यक्रमेणाङ्गानां तदर्थत्वात्’ (V. 1. 14 वा.) याज्ञ. II 135 mentions as heirs to a man dying sonless, his wife, daughter and parents (पितरौ). Suppose a man dies leaving his father and mother as nearest relatives, who should succeed, viz. whether mother should be preferred to father or vice versa or whether both should take the estate equally. The मिताक्षरा prefers the mother to the father, the Sm. C. refers to this instance of सारस्वतौ भवत. and there being (*Continued from last page*) no special ground of choice between the two, holds that the father takes first following certain other smṛtis like Bṛhat-Viṣṇu The Dāyabhāga prefers the father to the mother and several works like the Vyavahāraprakāśa, (p 524), the Madanaratna (p 364) do the same The words of the स्मृतिच (II p 297) are "सारस्वतौ भवत. इत्युत्पत्तिवाक्ये क्रमावगत्यभावेन याज्या-क्रमात् प्रधानयोः क्रमः पञ्चमे दर्शितो न पुन' सारस्वतावित्येकशेषत एव कथञ्चित् क्रमावगति-रुपपादितेति निबन्धमेव (?) मातृ प्राथम्यसमर्थनम्। अत एव श्रीकरेण पित्रोर्धनग्रहणेयुक्तं तदप्ययुक्तम्। .. दौहित्राभावे पितृगामित्वमवगन्तव्यम्। ' पञ्चमे ' in the above passage refers to fifth *adhyāya* of P M S.