Spiritual Benefit doctrine
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Spiritual Benefit · the doctrine of Spiritual Benefit
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (English)
Building upon this last notion, the Brahminical commentators gradually transformed the whole law until it became an exemplification of what Indian lawyers call the doctrine of Spiritual Benefit.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The doctrine connecting the religious blessing conferred by ritual with the civil right of succession.
) has shown that, wherever in modern India the doctrine of Spiritual Benefit—that is, of an intimate connection between the religious blessing and the civil right of succession—is most strongly held, women and the descendants of women are oftenest permitted to inherit.
There are few more curious meetings of the Past and Present than when an English Judge, in the High Court (let us say) of Calcutta, carefully weighs the exact amount of Spiritual Benefit derived by a deceased Hindu from the sacrifices of a descendant or collateral, and the exact degree of blessing reflected on the kinsman who has offered the sacred water and the sacred cake.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Hindoo legal-religious doctrine that inherited property functions to pay for expiatory rites for the deceased.
Building upon this last notion, the Brahminical commentators gradually transformed the whole law until it became an exemplification of what Indian lawyers call the doctrine of Spiritual Benefit.