Skip to main content

12 Types of Legal Heir in Ancient India

 12 Types of Legal Heir in Ancient India

types of legal heirs
Post by Insta - @ancient.bharat_

12 Types of Legal Heir in Ancient India : In Ancient India, 12 types of children were considered to be legal heir of his father. All of them need not be biological children of their legal father types of legal heir certificate .



12 Types of Legal Heir ( Children ) in Ancient India

  1. Aurasa : Biological son through wife in a normal marriage, where son carries father’s Y-Chromosome.
  2. Putrikaputra : When there is no son, girl is treated as son and her son becomes legal heir (ex : Babruvahana, born to Arjuna and Chitrangada, but became legal heir of his maternal-grandfather.)
  3. Kshetraja : Wife’s womb but husband is not biological father. (ex: KuntiMadri giving birth to pandavas). This can happen even after husband’s death and still the children born will be treated as deceased father’s heir ( types of legal heir certificate ).
  4. Dattaka : Adopted through legal method or vedic rituals.
  5. Kritima : A child is nourished and brough up as a son, but no adoption rituals performed. Child grows up and assumes you as parent.
  6. Gudhaja : Wife’s secret son, without husband’s knowledge. This child also is heir of father. Only difference with Kshetraja is, husband’s approval or knowledge ( types of legal heir certificate ).
  7. Apaviddha : Rejected child of some parent, but grew up with others. This child can claim property of person who nourished him, but cannot do pind-daan or death rituals to ancestors of that family ( types of legal heir certificate ) (example : Karna did not or could not do pind-daan to ancestors of the adhirtha-radha).
  8. Kanina : Son born to a lady before her marriage. But he becomes legal heir of his mother’s future husband. (ex : Karna would have inherited the throne of Hastinapur after the death of Pandu being his eldest son as per this law, but birth of Karna was kept secret by Kunti and she revealed the truth only after the death of Karna. )
  9. Sahodha : A son is brought along with the marriage. If a woman was pregnant at the time of her marriage, the son born to her after her marriage was deemed to be the son ( types of legal heir certificate ) of the man who married her, even though the biological father was a different man.
  10. Krita : He is a purchased son.
  11. Paunarbhava : The son of a virgin widow. She after her marriage became a ‘Punarbhu’ ( married second time). Such marriages happened when husband dies during or immediately after marriage and wife is still a virgin. She can re-marry a person of her choice, but a son (  types of legal heir certificate ) born from that marriage belongs to the family of 1st deceased husband. She can claim rights only from 2nd kid and so on..
  12. Swayamdatta : ‘Self Offered son’ – When an orphaned boy went to some person and offered himself to be his son and the latter accepted his offer, the boy in such a case was called Swayamdatta ( types of legal heir certificate )

Out of above 12, only 3 : 

AurasaPutrikaputraPaunarbhava legal heirs were entitled for full property of father and also his family’s property ( types of legal heir certificate ) (inherited from ancestors) .



2 More types of Legal Heir: 

Kanina and Sahodha ( types of legal heir certificate ) were also given rights to ancestral property, only if their biological father married their mother at a later stage.

Other 7 types of Legal Heir : 

KshetrajaDattakaKritimaGudhajaApaviddhaKritaSwayamdatta ( types of legal heir certificate ) were entitled to claim only what was earned by their (social) father or his part of ancestral property, but not the entire family property. However, they can carry the surname, gotra etc.



You might like:



Follow on Insta - ancient.bharat_ 

Application for types of legal heir certificate
How to apply types of legal heir certificate
How to get types of legal heir certificate
types of Legal heir certificate delhi
types of Legal heir certificate online status
types of Legal heir certificate sample
types of Legal heir affidavit format
types of Legal heir certificate application form
types of Legal heir certificate apply online
types of Legal heir certificate in hindi
types of Legal heir certificate online download
View types of legal heir certificate online
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in ancient india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in india
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma
types of legal heir in sanatan dharma

Popular posts from this blog

Why do Hindus wear bindis and tilaks on their forehead? | Science and Significance Behind Tilak and Bindi.

Why do Hindus wear bindis and tilaks on their forehead? |  Science and Significance Behind Tilak and Bindi.

16 Adornments सोलह श्रृंगार (Solah Shringar)

 Meaning"Solah Shringar" is made of two hindi words: 'Solah' and 'Shringar'. The word 'Solah' means 'sixteen' and the meaning of 'Shringar' is 'Adornments.  'Solah Shringar' corresponds to the 16 phases of the moon which are linked to a woman's menstrual cycle. This has a negative effect on a woman's physical and mental wellness. Our ancient sages believed that these effects could be nullified by wearing the 16 items of cosmetic and jewelry. . .