Which Section of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 lays down the order of succession among agnates and…

Section 12 sets the order among agnates or among cognates by degrees of ascent and then descent, with simultaneous entitlement where neither is preferred. Section 13 tells how those degrees are computed. Section 8 gives the overall male-intestate hierarchy, including preference of agnates over cognates; section 12 addresses ordering within the relevant category.