यवीयान्-ज्येष्ठभार्यायां पुत्रम् उत्पादयेद्) यदि । समस् तत्र विभागः स्याद्) इति धर्मो व्यवस्थितः ॥
yavīyān-jyeṣṭhabhāryāyāṃ putram utpādayed) yadi | samas tatra vibhāgaḥ syād) iti dharmo vyavasthitaḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
If a younger brother begets a son on the wife of the elder, the division must then be made equally; thus the law is settled. mentators the meaning is that, if a man leaves children by wives of different castes, the brothers are to provide for the dowry of the unmarried sisters of the same caste, i. e. a Brahmawa's sons by a Brahmawa wife for the daughters of the latter, the sons by a Kshatriya wife for the daughters of the latter, &c. This meaning is more clearly expressed by
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.