Book Title: Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift
Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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________________ 130 Ludo Rocher Makaranda eka evaurasaḥ pitrye dhane svāmī prakīrtitaḥ || tattulyah putrikāputro bhartavyās tv apare smrtāḥ || (26.70) Nārada lays down the order in which different kinds of sons inherit as follows: kramād dhy-ete prapadyeran mrte pitari taddhanam | iyāyaso jyāyaso’bhāve jaghanyas-tad avāpnuyāt || (13. 49/46) Yājñavalkya more generally concludes his discussion of the different kinds of sons as follows: pindado'msaharas-caiņām pūrvābhāve paraḥ paraḥ | (2. 132cd) In view of these and other privileges accorded to the aurasa son, it is important to define exactly which kind of son qualifies as an aurasa. I will now examine the various definitions of the term aurasa in the smrtis 16, and the several ways in which the commentators have tried to reconcile the differences. A number of smrtis provide remarkably similar definitions for the term aurasa : (1) Vasistha : svayam-utpăditaḥ svakşetre saṁskrtāyām (17. 13); (2) Visnu : svaksetre samskrtāyām utpaditah svayam (15. 2); (3) Manu : svaksetre samskrtāyām tu svayam-utpadayed dhi yam (9. 166ab); (4) Devala : samskrtāyāṁ tu bhāryāyāṁ svayam-utpădito hi yaḥ (Dharmakośa, p. 1350); (5) Hārīta :17 sādhvyāṁ svayam-utpāditaḥ (Dharmakośa, p. 1265); (6) Kautilya : svayamjātah krtakriyāyām (3. 7. 4).

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