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BAUDHAYANA.
II, 2, 3.
25. If one marries either knowingly or unknowingly a pregnant bride, the child which is born of her is called (a son) taken with the bride (sahodha).
26. He (is called a son) bought (krita) who, being purchased from his father and his mother, or from either of them, is received in the place of a child.
27. He (is called the son) of a twice-married woman (paunarbhava) who is born of a re-married female, (i. e.) of one who, having left an impotent man, has taken a second husband.
28. He is called) a self-given (son, svayamdatta) who, abandoned by his father and his mother, gives himself (to a stranger).
29. He who is begotten by (a man of) the first twice-born (caste) on a female of the Sūdra caste (is called) a Nishâda.
30. (He who was begotten by the same parents) through lust is called) a Pârasava. Thus (the various kinds of) sons (have been enumerated).
31. Now they quote also the following verses) : *They declare the legitimate son, the son of an appointed daughter, the son begotten on a wife, the adopted son and the son made, the son born secretly and the son cast off, (to be entitled) to share the inheritance.'
32. “They declare the son of an unmarried damsel and the son received with the bride, the son bought,
25. Vasishtha XVII, 27. 26. Colebrooke V, Dig. CCLXXXI; Vasishtha XVII, 30–32. 27. Vasishtha XVII, 18-20. 28. Vasishtha XVII, 33-35.
20. Colebrooke V, Dig. CCXCIII. Govinda points out that the Pârasava is, according to Baudhayana, the offspring of a Sadrâ concubine, not of a Sûdrâ wife. But see also above, I, 9, 17, 4.
31. Colebrooke V, Dig. CLXXX; Vasishtha XVII, 25. . 32. Colebrooke V, Dig. CLXXIX; Vasishtha XVII, 26.
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