‘No woman with a son or sons shall, after remarriage, be at liberty to make free use of her own property; for that property of hers, her sons shall receive.’

‘If a woman after remarriage attempts to take possession of her own property under the plea of maintaining her sons by her former husband, she shall be made to endow it in their name. If a woman has many male children by many husbands, then she shall conserve her property in the same condition as she had received it from her husbands.

Even that property which has been given to her with full powers of enjoyment and disposal, a remarried woman shall endow in the name of her sons ‘.5

In Kautilya we first come across a reference to the personal property of a married woman, which is termed Stridhanam over which she has full powers of enjoyment and disposal ; this has been the subject of comment and criticism in the later digests on law.