133. Such is the rule enjoined by me for sons where there is equality of cast. Even the son begotten by a Śúdrá, on a slave-woman, shall have such share as [the father] may allot.[205] 134. [But if there be no partition till] after the father's death, then the brothers [born in marriage] are to assign him half a share: if there be no brothers nor daughters' sons, he then takes the whole. 135, 136. If a man depart this life without male issue; (i) his wife, (ii) his daughters, (iii) his parents,[206] (iv) his brothers,[207] (v) the sons of brothers,[208] (vi) others of the same _gotra_,[209] (vii) kindred more remote,[210] (viii) a pupil, (ix) a fellow-student[211]--these succeed to the inheritance; each class upon failure of the one preceding. This rule applies to all the casts. 137. The heirs of a hermit, of a religious ascetic, of a professed _brahmachári_,[212] are successively, the preceptor, the disciple, and an associate dwelling in the same religious retreat. 138. One reunited[213] shall take the portion of his deceased reunited co-sharer, and shall give it up to a [son, if one be afterwards] born.[214] This is always so with uterine brothers. 139. A reunited half-brother shall take the property; not a [separated] half-brother: but a [uterine brother] whether reunited or not, shall take; this not being so with the half-brother.[215] 140. An impotent, an outcast as well as his son,[216] a cripple, a madman, an idiot, one blind, one incurably diseased, and such like,[217] are to be maintained, but do not share in the inheritance. 141. The _aurasa_ sons of those [disqualified] persons, also their wives' sons,[218] if themselves free from defect,[219] succeed to shares; and their daughters[220] are to be maintained until provided with husbands. 142. [So] their childless wives shall be maintained, if of good conduct; but shall be cast off, if of vicious habits, or of an evil nature.[221] 143. What has been given [to a woman] by her father, her mother, her husband, or her brother, or received by her before the nuptial fire, or on occasion of her husband's marriage with another wife, and such like,[222] is called _stridhana._ 144. Gifts from her kindred, from the bridegroom [before marriage], also subsequent gifts, descend to her own kindred, should she die without issue. 145. The _stridhana_ of a wife dying without issue, who has been married in one of the four forms of marriage designated _bráhma_ &c.,[223] belongs to the husband; if she have issue, then the _stridhana_ goes to her daughters; should she have been married in another form,[224] then her _stridhana_ goes to her parents.[225] 146. Whoso withholds his daughter,[226] after having promised to give her [in marriage], shall be amerced, and shall reimburse all expenses incurred with interest. If she die [after being affianced] he [_i. e._ the bridegroom] shall receive back what he has given, deduction being made for the expenditure on both sides.