Dāyabhāga
Sign in to saveThe Dāyabhāga is a Hindu law treatise written by Jīmūtavāhana which primarily focuses on inheritance procedure. The Dāyabhāga was the strongest authority in Modern British Indian courts in the Bengal region of India, although this has changed due to the passage of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 and subsequent revisions to the act. Based on Jīmūtavāhana's criticisms of the Mitākṣarā, it is thought that his work is preceded by the '. This has led many scholars to conclude that the ' represents the orthodox doctrine of Hindu law, while the Dāyabhāga represents the reformed version.
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26 sectionsContents
- Translation
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- Topics covered in the digest
- Sages mentioned in the ''Dāyabhāga''
- Central differences between the ''Dāyabhāga'' and the ''{{IAST|Mitākṣarā}}''
- Son's inheritance
- The rights of the widow
- Ancestral property
- Personal property
- Inheritance
- Succession
- Dharmaratna
- ''Vyavahāra-Mātrkā''
- ''Kāla-Viveka''
- Commentaries
- Śrīnātha Ācāryacūda
- Rāmabhadra Nyāylankāra
- Acyutānanda Cakraviartin
- {{IAST|Maheśvara Bhaṭṭācārya}}
- {{IAST|Śrīksṛṣṇa}}
- Raghunandana
- Dating
- Location
- Hindu Succession Act
- Notes
- References
The Dāyabhāga is a Hindu law treatise written by Jīmūtavāhana which primarily focuses on inheritance procedure. The Dāyabhāga was the strongest authority in Modern British Indian courts in the Bengal region of India, although this has changed due to the passage of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 and subsequent revisions to the act. Based on Jīmūtavāhana's criticisms of the Mitākṣarā, it is thought that his work is preceded by the '. This has led many scholars to conclude that the ' represents the orthodox doctrine of Hindu law, while the Dāyabhāga represents the reformed version.
The central difference between the texts is based upon when one becomes the owner of property. The Dāyabhāga does not give the sons a right to their father's ancestral property until after his death, unlike '', which gives the sons the right to ancestral property upon their birth. The digest has been commented on more than a dozen times.