Aputrika, Aputrikā: 6 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aputrikā (अपुत्रिका).—The daughter of a sonless father, who herself has no male child; one who is not appointed by her father to beget male issue for him on failure of a son; cf. अकृता (akṛtā).

-kaḥ The father of such a daughter.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Aputrika (अपुत्रिक):—[=a-putrika] [from a-putra] m. the father of a daughter not fit to be adopted as a son because of her not having any male offspring.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Aputrikā (अपुत्रिका):—I. [tatpurusha compound] f.

(-kā) A daughter who is not putrikā i. e. who is not appointed by her father, on failure of a son, to raise up male issue for him, for the purpose of performing his obsequies; e. g. putrikaurasayoḥ samo dhanādhikāraḥ . aputrikāyāstūḍhāyāḥ putrādinyūnopakārakasvaputradvāreṇopakārakatvam. (Not to be confounded with the [bahuvrihi compound] aputrikā, fem. of aputraka q. v.) E. a neg. and putrikā. Ii. [bahuvrihi compound] m.

(-kaḥ) A father who has left no daughter appointed by him to be a putrikā q. v.—Jīmūtavāhana explains in a verse of Devala which treats of the succession of daughters when the father leaves no widow: kanyābhyaśca piturdravyāddeyaṃ vaivāhikaṃ vasu . aputrikasya kanyā svā dharmajā putravadbhavet, the word putrikā as implying the meaning ‘son’: putrikāpadaṃ putropalakṣaṇam when the verse would have to be rendered: ‘to unmarried daughters a nuptial portion must be given out of the estate of the father; of a father who has no putrikā in the place of a son, his own daughter (i. e. one of the same caste) lawfully begotten must be considered like a son (i. e. be entitled to the inheritance); the same sense is conveyed by Parāśara's words: aputrasya mṛtasya kumārī rikthaṃ gṛhlīyāt (Dāyabh. p. 271, Dāyakramas. p. 4, Vīramitrod. p. 204 a. with the v. 1. aputramṛtasya), and by the quotation of the Dāyakramas. p. 4: aputrasya ca svā kanyā dharmajā putravaddharet (which seems to have been the reading of Colebrooke when he translates in his Digest vol. Iii. p. 491. Ccccxx: ‘and his own daughter…shall take &c.’. But the more precise bearing of Devala's clause is conveyed by a verse of Vṛhaspati which is to the same effect, viz. sadṛśī sadṛśenoḍhā sādhvī śuśrūṣaṇe ratā . kṛtākṛtā vāputrasya piturdhanaharī tu sā (Dāyabh. p. 273, Dāyakramas. p. 4, Vīramitr. p. 204b, Colebr. Dig. Iii. p. 186. Ccxxiv. 2.); for he introduces there the terms kṛtā and akṛtā which apply only to a putrikā either appointed by a plain declaration or by an implied intention (Manu 9. 136., Dig. Iii. 164. Ccvii) and the author of the Smṛtichandrikā (accord. to the Vīramitrod. p. 205 a) infers from this verse that the putrikā, whether kṛtā or akṛtā, precedes in succession the wife of the deceased, who herself precedes the daughter qualified by the four epithets sadṛśī…ratā, viz. sadṛśī sadṛśenoḍheti prākpaṭhitaṃ vṛhaspativacanaṃ smṛticandrikākāra itthaṃ vyācakhyau . atrādyāni catvāri viśeṣaṇāni patnyā ūrdhvamarthagrāhiṇīduhitṛviṣayāṇi . tataḥ prāgdhanagrāhiṇīduhitṛviśeṣaṇe dve avaśiṣṭe . kṛtākṛtā vetyatra putriketi viśeṣyādhyāhāraḥ . itaratra duhiteti viśeṣyādhyāhāraḥ . vāśabdaśca vyavasthitavikalpārthaḥ . evaṃ cāyamarthaḥ . aurasaputravihīnasya piturdhanaṃ dvividhāpi putrikā patnyāḥ pūrvaṃ gṛhlīyāt . savarṇādiviśeṣaṇopetā tu duhitā tata ūrdhvamiti. Now as the regular line of succession is in the first rank a son, then on failure of him the widow, and on failure of her the daughter &c. (comp. Dig. Iii. p. 489. Ccccxvii) and as a putrikā is equal in right to a son (Kullūka on Manu 9. 130. and comp. 9. 127.), the word aputrikasya of Devala, it is true, coincides in legal value with the word aputrasya of Parāśara &c., but on the other hand it is clear that the former is a more precise expression than the latter, since an aputrika will always be an aputra, but an aputra may not be an aputrika. (The Pandit who has supplied the notes to Colebrooke’s Digest denies the necessity of the former part of this inference (vol. Iii. p. 188), for a father may, in his opinion, appoint his daughter even if he has a son, yet his argument is not founded on the law-authorities, but on a precedent mentioned in the Bhāgav. Pur. (4. 1. 2.) where Manu appoints his daughter Ākūti as putrikā, when giving her in marriage to Ruchi, although she had brothers.) Jīmūtavāhana's gloss is therefore not to be rendered ‘putrikā means’, but ‘putrikā implies the meaning son’, when the concordance between the quoted authorities becomes complete. As Colebrooke has probably translated the reading aputrasya ca svā kanyā &c., mentioned before, he has no remark on the difficulty conveyed by the reading aputrikasya (but comp. vol. Iii. p. 493. 1. 38 ff.).—[A conjecture has been proposed to read aputrakasya instead of the latter word; but as it is advanced without any argument whatever, and is in the teeth of Jīmūtavāhana's gloss which is misunderstood in rendering aputrika ‘sonless’, it seems merely to proceed from a gratuitous trifling with the text.] E. a priv. and putrikā.

[Sanskrit to German]

Aputrika in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Aputrika (ಅಪುತ್ರಿಕ):—

1) [noun] one who does not have an offspring.

2) [noun] the father of a daughter not fit to be adopted as a son because of her not having any male offspring.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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