The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 13.47.27

13.47.27

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca |
śūdrāyāṃ brāhmaṇājjāto yadyadeyadhanaḥ smṛtaḥ |
kena prativiśeṣeṇa daśamo'pyasya dīyate || 27 ||

"Yudhishthira said, 'If the son born of a Sudra woman by a Brahmana father has been declared in the scriptures to be disentitled to any wealth, by what exceptional rule then is a tenth part of the paternal property to be given to him? A son born of a Brahmana wife by a Brahmana is unquestionably a Brahmana. One born of a Kshatriya wife or of a Vaisya wife, by a Brahmana husband, is similarly invested with the status of a Brahmana. Why then, O best of kings, are such sons to share the paternal wealth unequally? All of them, thou hast said, are Brahmanas, having been born of mothers that belong to the three higher orders equally entitled to the name of regenerate.'