[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s21.925 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.925 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.925 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.925](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.925) There is again no evidence to show whether a son, when grown up, normally continued to stay with his father, his wife becoming a member of the father’s household, or whether he set up a house of his own: probably the custom varied. Nor do we know whether the son was granted a special plot of land on marriage or otherwise, or whether he only came into such property after his father’s death. But any excessive estimate of the father’s powers over a son who was no longer a minor and naturally under his control, must be qualified by the fact that in his old age the sons might divide their father’s property,¹⁶ or he might divide it amongst them,¹⁷ and that when the father-in-law became aged he fell under the control of his son’s wife.¹⁸ There are also obscure traces that in old age a father might be exposed, though there is no reason to suppose that this was usual in Vedic India.¹⁹ - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.924](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.924) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.926](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.926) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.925](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.925) · Pramāṇa