the sister’s share. The son of a maternal brother is connected through the maternal brother, so he receives the maternal brother’s share. Thus, they inherit by representation. The versifier said:

“Assign them the position of those through whom they are connected,
In inheritance and exclusion; this is what they have said.”

His statement, “Males and females are equal”: thus, the son of a sister and the daughter of a sister inherit the sister’s share equally. This is the position followed by the author. He justified it with a feeble rationale: namely, that they inherit through kinship alone, so their males and females are equal, just as with maternal siblings. Maternal siblings inherit equally: male and female are alike. A maternal brother and sister receive the one-third share equally, because they inherit through kinship alone—that is, through kinship unaccompanied by clan solidarity or agnatic affiliation.

The second view on the matter is that, if they are connected through someone whose males and females receive equal shares, then their males and females receive equal shares; but if they are connected through someone for whom males and females receive different shares, then their shares differ. Thus, the children of maternal siblings are equal. If a person dies leaving a daughter of a maternal brother and a son of a maternal brother, they receive equal shares, because they are connected through someone whose males and females are equal. This follows from our saying that we assign them the position of those through whom they are connected.

However, if they are connected through someone whose males and females receive different shares, then the male must receive the share of two females. Thus, a son and a daughter of a paternal aunt: the paternal aunt is connected through the father, and among those connected through the father, the male is given preference over the female. Therefore, the son of the paternal aunt receives two-thirds, and her daughter one-third, of the paternal aunt’s inheritance.

His statement, “The children of daughters, the children of sons’ daughters, and the children of sisters are like their mothers”: the male and female children of daughters are like their mother. If a person dies leaving a daughter’s son