Verse 9.191

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

द्वौ तु यौ विवदेयातां द्वाभ्यां जातौ स्त्रिया धने ।
तयोर्यद् यस्य पित्र्यं स्यात् तत् स गृह्णीत नैतरः ॥ १९१ ॥

dvau tu yau vivadeyātāṃ dvābhyāṃ jātau striyā dhane |
tayoryad yasya pitryaṃ syāt tat sa gṛhṇīta naitaraḥ || 191 ||

But if two sons, born of two men, contend for the property in the mother’s possession, each shall take, to the exclusion of the other, what belonged to his own father.—(191)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

(verses 9.182-201)

(No Bhāṣya available.)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

Kullūka and Nandana take this verse as referring to the case in which a woman married twice successively two husbands and bore a son to each of them; in this case, on the death of the husbands, the property of each should be given by the mother to his own son.—Rāghavānanda, while accepting this explanation, proposes another:—‘If two sons begotten by two different men contend for the separate property of their mother, &c., &c.’.—Nārāyaṇa holds that the verse refers to a contention between a ‘body-born’ son and a ‘golaka’ or ‘Paunarbhava’ son for the estates of their respective fathers held by their mother.

This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 588), which notes that the term ‘strī’, according to the Pārijāta, stands for the prostitute, the re-married widow or the dissolute woman;—and in Vyavahāra-Bālambhaṭṭī (pp. 483 and 758).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

[See texts under 59, 145 and 146.]