Verse 9.140

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

मातुः प्रथमतः पिण्डं निर्वपेत् पुत्रिकासुतः ।
द्वितीयं तु पितुस्तस्यास्तृतीयं तत्पितुः पितुः ॥ १४० ॥

mātuḥ prathamataḥ piṇḍaṃ nirvapet putrikāsutaḥ |
dvitīyaṃ tu pitustasyāstṛtīyaṃ tatpituḥ pituḥ || 140 ||

The son of the Appointed Daughter shall offer the first cake to his mother, the second to her father and the third to his father’s father.—(140)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

It has been declared (132) that ‘he shall offer the cake to his father and to his maternal grandfather’; where the offering of the cake by the son of the Appointed Daughter to bis maternal grandfather has been enjoined; and this is a totally different kind of offering laid down for him.

‘The first cake, he shall offer to his mother,’—the second to her father.

Some people read ‘pitustasya,’ ‘his (not her) father’ And those who accept this reading offer the cake to the Appointed Daughter, and then to the progenitor, and then the third to the progenitor’s father.

In accordance with this view there would be no offering laid down for the maternal grandfather.—(140)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 563);—in Aparārka (p. 435), as referring to the case of the ‘grandson’ whose mother herself had been an ‘appointed daughter’ in the sense that she herself was made a ‘son’; in Madanapārijāta (p. 609);—and in Vīramitrodaya (Vyavahāra 185b).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

See texts under 132 and 136.

Baudhāyana (2.3.16).—‘They quote the following:—“The son of an Appointed Daughter offers the first funeral cake to his mother, the second to her father and the third to his father’s father.”’