The Law Code of Yājñavalkya 3.1.380

3.1.380

ahar ity anuvartate | anaurasāḥ kṣetrajadattakādayaḥ | teṣu jāteṣūparateṣu vāhorātram āśaucam | tathā svabhāryāsv anyagatāsv anyaṃ pratilomavyatiriktaṃ āśritāsu atītāsu cāhorātram eva na punaḥ saty api sāpiṇḍe daśārātram | pratilomāśritāsu cāśaucābhāva eva | pākhaṇḍyanāśritāḥ stenāḥ (YDh 3.6) ity anena pratiṣedhāt | etac ca bhāryāputratvaśabdayoḥ saṃbandhiśabdatvāt yat prātiyaugikaṃ bhāryātvaṃ putratvaṃ ca tasyaivedam āśauśaṃ | sapiṇḍānāṃ tv āśaucābhāva eva | ata eva prajāpatiḥ |

'A day' carries over. Non-legitimate sons are those born of the wife's womb (kṣetraja), adopted sons (dattaka), and so on. When they are born or pass away, there is impurity for a day and a night. Likewise, when one's own wives have gone to another—meaning they have resorted to another man other than one of reverse order—and have died, there is only a day and a night, but not ten days, even though sapinda relationship exists. But in the case of those who have resorted to a man of reverse order, there is no impurity at all, because of the prohibition by the verse: 'heretics, those who have not entered an order, thieves' (YDh 3.6). And this impurity—since the terms 'wife' and 'son' are relational terms—belongs only to that correlative counter-entity possessing wifedom or sonship; but for the sapindas there is no impurity at all. Therefore Prajāpati [says]: