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

70 VISH2VU. XVII, 21.
21. If she dies leaving children, her wealth goes
in every case to her daughter.
22. Ornaments worn by women when their hus-
bands were alive, the heirs shall not divide among
themselves; if they divide them, they become out-
casts.
23. (Coparceners) descended from different fathers
must adjust their shares according to the fathers.
Let each take the wealth due to his father, no other
(has a right to it).

XVIII.
1. If there are four sons of a Brahmazza (springing
from four different wives) of the four castes, they
shall divide the whole estate of their father into ten
parts.
2. Of these, let the son of the Brahmazza wife
take four parts ;
3. The son of the Kshatriya wife, three parts ;
4. The son of the Vafsya wife, two parts ;
5. The son of the Xudra wife, a single part.
22. My rendering of this Xloka is based upon Kulluka’s interpre-
tation of the identical passage of Manu (IX, 200), which is supported
by Vignanesvara (Mitakshara I, 4, 19 in Colebrooke’s version),
Madhava (Burnell, Daya-Vibhaga 51), Varadaraga (Burnell, Vara-
daraga’s Vyavaharanir/zaya 49), and others. Nand. proposes a
different interpretation, on which rests Dr. Buhler’s rendering,
‘ Those ornaments, which the wives usually wear, should not be
divided by the heirs whilst the husbands are alive.’
XVIII. 1-5. M. IX, 149, 151-153; Y. II, 125. — 11, 25-27.
Y. II, 125. — 1-31, 38-40. Colebrooke, Dig. V, 3, CLIII. — 32-
37. Colebrooke, Dig. V, 3, CLXXII; V, 2, LXXXVI; V, 1, LIV.
— 36. Y. II, 114; Apast. II, 6, 14, 1. — 41. M. IX, 210. — 42, 43.
M. IX, 208, 209; Y. II, 118, 119. — 44. M. IX, 219; Gaut.
XXVIII, 46, 47. — 43, 44. Colebrooke, Dig. V, 2, XCI; V, 5,
CCCLXIII.