Sapinda
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
kinsmen · kinsmen bound by pinda offerings · sapindas · sapiṇḍas
spoken of as
1 expressionsapiṇḍas1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
58 // Among *sapiṇḍas*, a ten-day period of impurity from a death is prescribed;
in the texts
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
Kinsmen related by common ancestral offerings, entitled to inherit in the absence of closer heirs.
If one dies childless and wifeless, without brother, father, or mother, all the sapindas shall divide that inheritance according to their shares.
Where there are many agnates, and likewise kinsmen and relatives, whoever is the nearest among them, he shall take the wealth of the sonless man.
Whoever is the nearest among the sapindas, his shall be the wealth.
Manusmṛti
Kinsmen related through shared ancestral offerings (pinda), whose relationship ceases at the seventh generation.
58 // Among *sapiṇḍas*, a ten-day period of impurity from a death is prescribed;