Sutra 26

Devanagari script

न च हतस्य भूमिद्रव्यपुत्रदारानभिमन्येत ॥ कZ_०७.१६.२६ ॥

Transliteration

na ca hatasya bhūmi-dravya-putra-dārān abhimanyeta

Translation

และเขาไม่พึงอ้างสิทธิ์ในที่ดิน ทรัพย์สิน บุตร หรือภรรยาของผู้ที่ถูกสังหารแล้ว

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Particle
• Root: न
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय (negation particle)

• च: and
• Type: Particle
• Root: च
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (connective)

• हतस्य: of a slain (person)
• Type: Noun (PPP used substantively)
• Root: हन्
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्ययान्त), पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी एकवचन; ‘हत’ = slain/killed (of a person)

• भूमि-द्रव्य-पुत्र-दारान्: land, property, sons, and wives (i.e., his estate and family)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूमि/द्रव्य/पुत्र/दार
• Form: समाहार/इतरेतर-द्वन्द्व (enumerative); पुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया बहुवचन; members: भूमि (land), द्रव्य (property/wealth), पुत्र (sons), दार (wives)

• अभिमन्येत: should claim / should regard as one’s own
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि√मन्
• Form: लिङ् (विधिलिङ्), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुष एकवचन; आत्मानं परिगृह्णीयात्/स्वत्वेन मन्येत (should presume/claim as one’s own)

Entities Mentioned

• king
• slain opponent
• surviving family

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FAQs

Why prohibit taking the slain enemy’s family and property?

It reduces blood-feud incentives, stabilizes newly controlled territory, and presents conquest as rule-restoration rather than predation.