Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.41

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that the mother’s own portion falls to the lot of the girl ; the property shall be inherited by the daughter’s son from the father that has no sons. For he bestows the ancestral food-cakes for his own father and for his mother’s father. In law there is no difference between one’s own son and the daughter’s son. The daughter, too, takes precedence of the son that is born elsewhere, that is, who is not the son of the body ; according to the commentary, she takes three-fifths of the estate. So we find in xiii, 47.25 f. : “ That which was given by her father to the wife from the Brahman caste, O Yudhishṭhira, shall be taken by the daughter. For she is equal to the son.” 1