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Manava Dharmashastra 9.170

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.170

Language
Sanskrit

9.170

utpadyate gṛhe yas tu na ca jñāyeta kasya saḥ
sa gṛhe gūḍha utpannas tasya syād yasya talpajaḥ //

If (a child) be born in a man's house and his father be not known, he is a son born secretly in the house (Gudhotpanna), and shall belong to him of whose wife he was born.

Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu

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