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XV, 27.
INHERITANCE.
10. The son of an unmarried damsel is the fifth.
11. (He is called so who is) born by an unmarried daughter in the house of her father.
12. And he belongs to the man who (afterwards) marries the mother.
13. The son who is secretly born in the house is the sixth.
14. He belongs to him in whose bed he is born. 15. The son received with a bride is the seventh.
16. He is called so who) is the son of a woman married while she was pregnant.
17. 'And he belongs to the husband (of the pregnant bride).
18. The adopted son (dattaka) is the eighth.
19. And he belongs to him to whom he is given by his mother or father.
20. The son bought is the ninth.
21. And he belongs to him by whom he is bought.
22. The son self-given is the tenth.
23. And he belongs to him to whom he gave himself.
24. The son cast away is the eleventh.
25. (He is called so) who was forsaken by his father or mother (or by both).
26. And he belongs to him by whom he is received.
27. The son born by any woman whomsoever 1 is the twelfth.
27. 1 Yatra kvakanotpâdita, 'born wherever,' means, according to Nand.,' begotten anyhow, but otherwise than the above-mentioned sons, upon a woman, whether one's own wife, or another man's wife, whether equal in caste or not, whether legally married to the
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