Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.4

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³ The woman is often found inheriting her husband's property in spite of many opposed views. The wife inherits the property of the sonless man: Bṛhaspati, xxv, 46-50 (but cp. the partly contradictory provisions, which yet follow immediately thereafter, 53 and 54; they look, indeed, like an interpolation, especially as against 55); Viṣṇu, xvii, 4; Yājñav., ii, 135 f. (= Agnipur., 256.22 f.). Cp. Mahānirvāṇatantra, xii, 23, 27, 28, and the passages quoted in the discussion of the inheritance rights of the maiden, especially the claim of Viṣṇu