rty], can divide it
among his sons as he pleases; either giving to the eldest the best
share or in such wise that all share equally.[175]

115. If he give equal shares, such of his wives as have not received
_stridhana_ from their husband or father-in-law shall also equally
share.[176]

116. If one have means, and do not desire [to share in the paternal
estate], he shall be separated, something trifling being given to
him.[177] A distribution by a father in smaller or larger shares, if
in accordance with the Sastras, is lawful.[178]

117. After decease of the parents, let the sons make equal division
of the property and of the debts.[179] And so the daughters, of what
is left of the mother's [_stridhana_], after [paying] her debts; and,
if there be no daughters, the sons or others of the family [being
heirs, take it].

118. What has been self-acquired by any one, as an increment, without
diminishing the paternal estate, likewise a gift from a friend or a
marriage-gift, does not belong to the coheirs.[180]

119. If one have recovered ancestral property which had been
purloined, he has not to give it up to the coheirs;[181] nor shall a
man share the earnings of science.[182]

120. If however the common property be augmented, equal division is
enjoined.[183] In making division among several grandsons, regard
should be had to the respective [portions of their deceased] fathers;

121. inasmuch as the ownership of father and son is co-equal in the
acquisitions of the grandfather, whether land, any settled income, or
moveables.

122. If a son be born of a wife of equal cast, after partition made,
he is to share; or a share may be allotted him from the estate as it
is, after allowing for income and expenditure.[184]

123. Whatever property may be given by the parents to any child,
shall belong to that child. If partition be made after the father's
death, the mother shall also have an equal share.[185]

124. Those of the brothers whose ritual ceremonies have not been
accomplished, shall have them completed by the others whose ritual is
gone through: so in like manner as to the ritual of sisters, [each of
the brethren] devoting a fourth part of his share.[186]

125. The sons of a brahman, shall receive, according to their
[mother's] cast, four parts, or three, or two, or one: the sons of a
kshattriya [in like manner], three, or two, or one: and the sons of a
vaisya, two, or one.[187]

126. Whatever, after partitio