Under Hindu Succession Act, 1956, if a Hindu male dies leaving behind more than one widow:

HSA section 10, Rule 1 gives the widow one share; if there is more than one widow, all widows together take that one share. Each widow does not receive a separate full share. Other rules allocate shares to surviving children, the mother and branches of predeceased children, so the answer is the collective-widow rule rather than a claim that every individual Class I heir invariably receives an equal share.

Current law: UCC section 51, Rule 1 instead expressly gives every surviving spouse one share each, where that Code governs the estate. The 2026 amendment also replaces “Widow” with “Spouse” in Schedule 2, Class I. This is a material difference from HSA’s collective-widows rule, subject to UCC scope, exclusions and the validity of the marriages. UCC section 390 supersedes prior rules only insofar inconsistent on covered matters and preserves accrued rights and pre-commencement proceedings.