History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t1.131

v4.c63.t1.131

*Kānīna.* This word is derived from the word 'kanyā' (a maiden). Pāṇini IV. 1. 116 (*kanyāyāḥ kanīna ca*) derives the word in the sense of "child of a maiden" and the Kāśikā gives Karṇa and Vyāsa as instances of kānīna sons. The word kānīna occurs in the Atharvaveda V. 5. 8 and *kumārīputra* occurs in the Vājasaneyasaṁhitā 30. 6. Nār. (dāyabhāga 17)¹²⁵² says that the kānīna, sahoḍha and gūḍhaja are the sons of the man who marries the mother of these and they take the wealth of the husband of their mother. The Pārijāta (q. by V. R. p. 565) states that the kānīna and sahoḍha become the sons of their mother's father if the latter is sonless, but if he has a son then they become the sons of the husband of their mother and if both have no sons then they become the sons of both.