Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.750

c7.750

There are lingering traces even of the purchased son (Krita) mentioned in the Smṛtis. Thus adoption by purchase is found in Guzerat; it is the only kind of adoption among several castes of Madras and in the wellknown sect of Gosāvis who cannot marry, children are very often purchased and are regarded as sons in the spiritual sense². In the customary law we may still find traces of the pratice of legitimatising the sons of the wife born without the wedlock, such as the Kānīna, Sahoḍha, Guḍhaja sons, as for instance in the Punjab³. For the law of the illegitimate sons of Śudra husbands, i. e. the lower castes, see §24.