The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s10.t3.3

c14.s10.t3.3

The commentary is curiously enough described in the colophons as being the work of his mother Lakṣmīdevī. There are several rulings in this treatise to endow women with rights of inheritance such as are denied by the masters, Yājnavalkya and Vijnāneśvara, themselves, and of course by others. Sisters, for instance, are authorized by Bālambhaṭṭa to succeed immediately after brothers in case a man dies without a male issue.