(1) The property of a female Hindu dying intestate shall devolve according to the rules set out in section 16,
             (a) firstly, upon the sons and daughters (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) and the husband;
             (b) secondly, upon the heirs of the husband;
             (c) thirdly, upon the mother and father;
             (d) fourthly, upon the heirs of the father; and
             (e) lastly, upon the heirs of the mother.
         (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
             (a) any property inherited by a female Hindu from her father or mother shall devolve, in the absence of any son or daughter of the deceased (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) not upon the other heirs referred in sub-section (1) in the order specified therein, but upon the heirs of the father; and
             (b) any property inherited by a female Hindu from her husband or from her father-in-law shall devolve, in the absence of any son or daughter of the deceased (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) not upon the other heirs referred to in sub-section (1) in the order specified therein, but upon the heirs of the husband.
                                                    STATE AMENDMENT
    Kerala.--
Amendment of section 15.--In the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (Central Act 30 of 1956), in section 15, after clause (b) of sub-section (2), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--
    "(c)" any property inherited by a female Hindu from her pre-deceased son shall devolve, not upon the other heirs referred to in sub-section (1) in the order specified therein, but upon the heirs of the predeceased son from whom she inherited the property."
    [vide Kerala Act 17 of 2016, sec. 2].