satrajito ’napatyatvad

 grhniyur duhituh sutah

dayam niniyapah pindan

 vimucyarnam ca sesitam

 

Translation: 

 

“Since Satrajit had no sons, his daughter’s sons should receive his inheritance. They should pay for memorial offerings of water and pinda, clear their grandfather’s outstanding debts and keep the remainder of the inheritance for themselves.

 

Purport: 

 

Srila Sridhara Svami quotes the following smrti injunction regarding inheritance: patni duhitaras caiva pitaro bhrataras tatha/tat-suta gotra-ja bandhuh sisyah sa-brahmacarinah. “The inheritance goes first to the wife, then [if the wife has passed away] to the daughters, then to the parents, then to the brothers, then to the brothers’ sons, then to family members of the same gotra as the deceased, and then to his disciples, including brahmacaris.”

 

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti adds that since Satrajit had no sons, since his wives were killed together with him, and since his daughter Satyabhama was not interested in the Syamantaka jewel, which constituted the inheritance, it rightfully belonged to her sons.

 

In Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Srila Prabhupada explains: “Lord Krsna indicated by this statement that Satyabhama was already pregnant and that her son would be the real claimant of the jewel and would certainly take the jewel from Akrura.”