[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c19.323 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.323 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c19.323 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.323](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.323) \*Mūrdhāvasikta.\* This is an anuloma caste according to the view of some teachers in Gaut. IV. 17 and Yāj. I. 91 sprung from the marriage of a brāhmaṇa with a kṣatriya woman. According to Vaik. (X. 12) the offspring of the marriage of a brāhmaṇa with a kṣatriya woman is the foremost among anulomas and is called savarṇa, while the offspring of the clandestine union of these two is called abhiṣikta. If crowned he becomes a king, otherwise he subsists by studying Āyurveda (Medicine) or the science of ghosts or astronomy, astrology and mathematics. In the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa (chap. 26. 36-39) more details are added. - [Previous: v2.c19.322](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.322) - [Next: v2.c19.324](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.324) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.91) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.4.17) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Vaikhānasadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vaikhanasa) — Vikhanas, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.323](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.323) · Pramāṇa