Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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IV, 25.
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22. In the seventh (generation men obtain) a change of caste, either being raised to a higher one or being degraded to a lower one.
23. The venerable teacher declares (that this happens) in the fifth (generation).
24. And (the same rule applies) to those born (from parents of different classes that are) intermediate between two of the castes originally) created (by Brahman).
25. But those born in the inverse order (from fathers of a lower and mothers of a higher caste stand) outside (the pale of) the sacred law,
22. Apastamba II, 5, 11, 10-11. "That is as follows: If a Savarnâ female, born of the Kshatriya wife of a Brahmana, is married to a Brahmana, and her female descendants down to the seventh likewise, then the offspring which that seventh female descendant bears to her Brâhmana husband is equal in caste to a Brâhmana. In like manner, if a Savarna male, the son of a Brâhmana and of his Kshatriya wife, again marries a Kshatriya wife and his male descendants down to the seventh likewise, then the offspring of that seventh male descendant is equal in caste to a Kshatriya. The same principle must be applied to the offspring of Kshatriyas and wives of the Vaisya caste as well as to Vaisyas and wives of the Sadra caste.'-Haradatta.
23. (The venerable) teacher opines that the change of caste takes place in the fifth generation. They declare that the plural may be used to denote one teacher. This Sätra refers to (cases of extraordinary merit acquired through) virtuous conduct and study of the Veda.'-Haradatta. It is clear that in this case Haradatta, too, has seen that the word âkâryâh has another force than the more common eke; see above, note to III, 36.
24. That is as follows: If the daughter of a Savarna, born of a wife of the Ambashtha caste, is married again to a Savarna, and her female descendants down to the seventh likewise, then the offspring of that seventh female descendant, begotten by a Savarna husband, is equal in caste to a Savarna.'-Haradatta. Regarding the birth of the four castes from Brahman, see Rig-veda X, 90, 12.
25. Manu X, 41, 67-68.
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