The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

XV, 47- INHERITANCE. 6"
an inferior caste) on women of a higher caste
receive a share.
38. Their sons do not even receive a share of
the wealth of their paternal grandfathers.
39. They should be supported by the heirs.
40. And he who inherits the wealth, presents the
funeral oblation (to the deceased).
41. Amongst wives of one husband also the son
of one is the son of all (and must present funeral
oblations to them after their death).
42. Likewise, amongst brothers begotten by one
(father, the son of one is the son of all, and must
present funeral oblations to them all).
43. Let a son present the funeral oblations to
his father, even though he inherit no property.
44. Because he saves (trayate) his father from
the hell called Put, therefore (a male child) is called
put-tra (protector from Put, son) by Svayambhu
himself.
45. He (the father) throws his debt on him (the
son); and the father obtains immortality, if he sees
the face of a living son.
46. Through a son he conquers the worlds,
through a grandson he obtains immortality, and
through the son’s grandson he gains the world of
the sun.
47. No difference is made in this world between
the son of a son and the son of a daughter; for
even a daughter’s son works the salvation of a
childless man, just like a son’s son.

44. 'Svayambhu means the Veda.' (Nand.)

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