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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. [1]
Kane places the Mitākṣarā between 974 CE and 1000 CE, but he says, "there is no evidence to establish the exact time when the work was undertaken." [5] He places it after 1050 CE because it names Viśvarūpa, Medhātithi, and Dhāreśvara, other commentators, as authoritative sources.
The Mitakshara doesn't allows partition of ancestral property among coparceners, while the Dayabhaga does. The Mitakshara completely bars women & their descendants from inheriting ancestral property (similar to Salic law ), however the Dayabhaga allows childless widows to inherit property of their sonless fathers & childless husbands.
It revised rules on coparcenary property, giving daughters of the deceased equal rights with sons, and subjecting them to the same liabilities and disabilities. The amendment essentially furthers equal rights between Hindu males and females in society through legislation.
This treatise differs in some aspects from Mitakshara, which was prevalent in other parts of India based on Yajnavalkya Smrti. The right of a widow without any male issue to inherit the properties of her deceased husband is recognized in Dāyabhāga .
Mitakshara is the treatise on Yājñavalkya Smṛti, named after a sage of the same name. Vijnaneshwara was born in the village of Masimadu, near Basavakalyan in Karnataka . He lived in the court of king Vikramaditya VI (1076-1126), the Western Chalukya Empire monarch.
Henry Thomas Colebrooke was born on 15 June 1765. His parents were Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, MP for Arundel and Chairman of the East India Company from 1769, and Mary Gaynor, daughter and heir of Patrick Gaynor of Antigua.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, [1] section 3 on definitions defines Sapinda in sub-section (f); as mentioned below: (i) “Sapinda relationship” with reference to any person extends as far as the third generation (inclusive) in the line of ascent through the mother, and the fifth (inclusive) in the line of ascent through the father, the line being traced upward in each case from the person ...