Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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9.131. But whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter
alone; and the son of an (appointed) daughter shall take the whole estate of (his maternal grandfather) who
leaves no son.
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9.132. The son of an (appointed) daughter, indeed, shall (also) take the estate of his (own) father, who leaves no
(other) son; he shall (then) present two funeral cakes to his own father and to his maternal grandfather.
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9.133. Between a son’s son and the son of an (appointed) daughter there is no difference, neither with respect to
worldly matters nor to sacred duties; for their father and mother both sprang from the body of the same (man).
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9.134. But if, after a daughter has been appointed, a son be born (to her father), the division (of the inheritance)
must in that (case) be equal; for there is no right of primogeniture for a woman.
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9.135. But if an appointed daughter by accident dies without (leaving) a son, the husband of the appointed
daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
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9.136. Through that son whom (a daughter), either not appointed or appointed, may bear to (a husband) of equal
(caste), his maternal grandfather (has) a son’s son; he shall present the funeral cake and take the estate.
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9.137. Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son’s son he obtains immortality, but through his son’s
grandson he gains the world of the sun.
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9.138. Because a son delivers (trayate) his father from the hell called Put, he was therefore called put-tra (a
deliverer from Put) by the Self-existent (Svayambhu) himself.
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9.139. Between a son’s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference; for even the son of
a daughter saves him (who has no sons) in the next world, like the son’s son.
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9.140. Let the son of an appointed daughter first present a funeral cake to his mother, the second to her father,
the funeral to his father’s father.