Under section 21 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, the word dependant means:

Section 21(iii) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 includes among the dependants of a deceased Hindu his or his son's "widow, so long as she does not remarry". The father and the mother are also dependants under section 21(i) and (ii), so the options saying the father only or the mother only are wrong, and the catch-all cannot be correct when those options are wrong.