law: Hindu Succession Act, 1956
  16. Order of succession and manner of distribution among
  
  heirs of a female Hindu
  The order of succession among the heirs referred to in section
  
  15 shall be, and the distribution of the intestate's property among those heirs
  
  shall take place, according to the following rules, namely:-
  Rule 1 - Among the heirs specified in sub-section (1) of section
  
  15, those in one entry shall be preferred to those in any succeeding entry and
  
  those including in the same entry shall take simultaneously.
  Rule 2 - If any son or daughter of the intestate had pre-deceased
  
  the intestate leaving his or her own children alive at the time of the
  
  intestate's death, the children of such son or daughter shall take between them
  
  the share which such son or daughter would have taken if living at the
  
  intestate's death.
  Rule 3 -The devolution of the property of the intestate on the
  
  heirs referred to in clauses (b), (d) and (e) of sub-section (1) and in
  
  sub-section (2) of section 15 shall be in the same order and according to the
  
  same rules as would have applied if the property had been the father's or the
  
  mother's or the husband's as the case may be, and such person had died
  
  intestate in respect thereof immediately after the intestate's death.