An eldest brother who through avarice may defraud the younger ones, shall no ,longer hold the position of the eldest, shall not receive an ,eldest son s additional share, and shall be punished by the king.

Both the eldest and the youngest shall take ,their shares according to ,the rule just stated ,each of those who are between the eldest and the youngest, shall have the share ,prescribed for the middlemost.

The eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as ,they lived under their father.

The elder brother who marries after the younger, the younger brother who marries before the elder, the female with whom such a marriage is contracted, he who gives her away, and the sacrificing priest, as the fifth, all fall into hell.

The wife of an elder brother is for his younger ,brother the wife of a Guru, but the wife of the younger is declared ,to be the daughter in law of the elder.

The additional share ,deducted for the eldest shall be one twentieth ,of the estate and the best of all chattels, for the middlemost half of that, but for the youngest one fourth.