in coparcenary with his male issue, and the doctrine of survivorship applies to it. But the question raised by this appeal, is whether the son acquires by birth an interest jointly with his fatherh in the estate, which the latter inherits from his maternal grandfather. Now, Vijnanesvara, the author of Mitakshara, expressly limits such right by birth to an estate which is paternal or grand-paternal. It is true that Colebrooke's translation of the 27th sloka of the first section of the chapter of Mitakshara, which deals with inheritance is as follows: "It is a settled point that property in the paternal or ancestral estate is by birth:. But Colebrooke apparently used the word 'ancestral' to denote grandpaternal, and did not intend to mean that in the estate, which devolves upon a person from his male ancestor in the maternal line, his son acquires an interest by birth. The original test of the Mitakshara shows that the word used by "Vijnanesvara, which has been translated by Colebrooke as 'ancestral' is paitamaha which means belonging to pitamaha. Now, pitamaha ordinarily means father's father, and though it is sometimes used to include any paternal male ancestor of the father, it does not mean a maternal male ancestor.
