[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.c30.5 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c30.5 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c30.5 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c30.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30.5) ¹⁴⁰⁸ The word गुरु means only the relatives of the husband and not the father of the widow ‘गुरवश्च श्वश्रूश्वशुरदेवरादयो भर्तुसगोत्रा द्रष्टव्या न पित्रादयः’ मेधा० on मनु IX. 59. हरदत्त differs and explains गौतम 18. 5 as ‘गुरुभिः पतिपक्षैः पितृपक्षैर्वा नियुक्ता सती संयुज्येत’. Manu (IX. 60-61) shows that some said that only one son could be had by नियोग, while others held that two could be had. - [Previous: v2.c30.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30.4) - [Next: v2.c30.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30.6) - [Up: v2.c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30) ## Cites (3) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.59) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.18.5) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c30.5) · Pramāṇa