estate passing to the sons as in theory a means of providing for the _sacra_ of the deceased house-father. Still the bride possessed her personal belongings--her couch, clothing, and ornaments; and from this germ gradually arose, beginning even in remote antiquity, her existing rights of property and inheritance.[72] In short, the old Aryan household reveals but the elements of agnation and the _potestas_ as they appear in the Roman law.[73] [63] LEIST, _Alt-arisches Jus Gentium_, 122 ff., 125-33. [64] BOTSFORD, _Athenian Constitution_, 10 ff., 21 ff., 25 ff., divides the _rita_ period into two stages: that of the "primitive Aryan household," and that of the "early Ayran household," and thinks that the latter stage is represented by the house-communities of the southern Slavs; but this may be doubted. Dr. Botsford favors the existence of agnation and the absolute power of the father in the _rita_ period; and believes that the liberal tendencies, presently to be pointed out, are a development of the _dharma_ period, beginning before the separation (24-26). On agnation and the power of the early Aryan house-fathers see SCHRADER, _Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte_, 386 ff.; ZIMMER, _Altindisches Leben_, 319 ff., 326 ff.; DELBRÜCK, _Die indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen_, 382, 586-88, 543, 544; JOLLY, _Ueber die rechtliche Stellung_, etc., 4 ff., 20-22; _Hindu Law of Partition_, 76 ff. [65] LEIST, _op. cit._, 80. [66] On ancestor-worship, in connection with the literature already cited, p. 13, note 4, see LEIST, _Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte_, 7 ff., 121 ff.; _Alt-arisches Jus Gentium_, 59-118; ZIMMER, _Altindisches Leben_, 318; SCHNEIDER, _Die Naturvölker_, I, 202 ff., II, 64 f., 75, 76, 108, 126 f., 255 ff., 369; KOHLER, "Indisches Ehe- und Familienrecht," _ZVR._, III, 408 ff.; "Studien über künstliche Verwandtschaft," _ibid._, V, 423-25; also for the Papuas, _ibid._, VII, 373. For the influence of ancestor-worship among the Slavs see KOVALEVSKY, _Mod. Customs and Anc. Laws of Russia_, 33 ff.; among the American aborigines, PEET, "Ethnographic Religions and Ancestor-Worship," _Am. Antiquarian_, XV, 230-45, and "Personal Divinities and Culture Heroes," _ibid._, 348-72.