The Law Code of Yājñavalkya 3.1.346

3.1.346

ubhayoḥ patipitṛpakṣayoḥ | vivāhād ūrdhvaṃ tu viṣṇunā viśeṣo darśitaḥ: saṃskṛtāsu strīṣu nāśaucaṃ pitṛpakṣe, tatprasavamaraṇe cet pitṛgṛhe syātāṃ tadaikarātraṃ trirātraṃ vā (ViDh 22.33–34) iti | tatra prasave ekāhaḥ prayāṇe trirātram iti vyavasthā | idaṃ ca vayovasthāśaucaṃ sarvavarṇasādharaṇam, kṣatrasya dvādaśāhāni (YDh 3.22) iti tadvarṇaviśeṣopādānenābhidhānāt | ata eva manunā anupāttavarṇaviśeṣāśaucavidheḥ sādhāraṇyapratipādanārthaṃ cāturvarṇyādhikāre saty api punaḥ,

'For both parties' means for both the husband's and the father's side. But subsequent to marriage, a special rule has been shown by Viṣṇu: 'For married women there is no impurity on the father's side; but if her childbirth or death should occur in the father's house, then it is for one night or three nights' (ViDh 22.33–34). There, the resolution is that it is one day in childbirth and three nights upon death. And this impurity dependent on stage of age is common to all classes, because it is stated with reference to the specific classes such as: 'for a Kshatriya twelve days' (YDh 3.22). For this very reason, in order to demonstrate that the rule of impurity where no class distinction is specified applies universally, although it falls within the scope of the four classes, Manu again stated: