The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c15.192

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c15.192

An incidental anecdote in the sixth Act shows that the property of those who died without heirs escheated to the state. A conscientious king would satisfy himself thoroughly of the absence of heirs before taking possession. Duṣyanta, on inquiry learns that one of the widows of a childless shipwrecked merchant was pregnant. He gives a decree that the unborn child had a title to its father's property. He continues :

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