Arthashastra

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अदायादकं राजा हरेत् स्त्री वृत्ति प्रेत कार्य वर्जम्, अन्यत्र श्रोत्रिय द्रव्यात् ॥

Property for which no claimant is found (ádáyádakam) shall go to the king, except the property of a woman, of a dead man for whom no funeral rites have been performed, or of a niggardly man with the exception of that of a Bráhman learned in the Vedas.

english translation

adAyAdakaM rAjA haret strI vRtti preta kArya varjam, anyatra zrotriya dravyAt ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript