Appointed daughter
“putrika”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
appointed daughter · 'appointment' of a daughter · putrikā
spoken of as
1 expressionPutrikā“appointed daughter”1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
126 // A man without a son may, by this rule, make his daughter a `putrikā` (an appointed daughter), saying:
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The Hindu institution by which a sonless father nominates his daughter to bear a son who counts as his own, discussed as a precursor to daughters' inheritance rights.
But the ancient law allowed the father, who had no prospect of having legitimate sons, to ‘appoint’ or nominate a daughter who should bear a son to himself and not to her own husband.
Some customs near akin to the Hindu usage of ‘appointing’ a daughter appear to have been very widely diffused over the ancient world, and traces of them are found far down in history.
The chief interest of the Hindu ‘appointment,’ and of the counterparts of it in the law of other races, lies in their probably marking one of the points at which the right of women to inherit made its way into the strict agnatic systems of kinship and succession which prevailed among the more advanced of the barbarous societies.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
A daughter formally appointed to continue the father's lineage in the absence of a son.
By this very rule, he made a son and then an appointed daughter.
/ But others say that for a sonless man, an appointed daughter is thought of.
/ The cause of lineage among them are the legitimate son and the appointed daughter.
Manusmṛti
The institution of appointing a daughter to bear a son who counts as the sonless father's own heir for ritual and inheritance purposes.
126 // A man without a son may, by this rule, make his daughter a `putrikā` (an appointed daughter), saying: