Jimutavahana

(early 12th c.) Author of the Dayabhaga,
a legal text primarily concerned with
inheritance, partition, and the division
of property. It eventually became the primary legal authority for the Bengal cultural region; areas outside Bengal were
usually governed by a different legal text,
the Mitakshara. One of the major differences between these texts concerns the
nature of inheritance. The Mitakshara
stresses inheritance by survivorship, in
which only living males can inherit property, whereas the Dayabhaga stresses
inheritance by succession, in which a
dead man’s heirs can inherit in his name.
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