History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t1.86

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¹²²⁸ The औरस is called स्वयंजात in आदिपर्व 120. 33. I understand प्रणीत, परिक्रीत and स्वैरिणीपुत्र in the आदिपर्व to be the same as पुत्रिकापुत्र, क्षेत्रज and गूढज respectively. स्वयंजातः प्रणीतश्च परिक्रीतश्च यः सुतः। पौनर्भवश्च कानीनः स्वैरिण्यां यश्च जायते। दत्तः क्रीतः कृत्रिमश्च उपगच्छेत्स्वयं च यः। सहोढो ज्ञातिरेताश्च हीनयोनिधृतश्च यः। पूर्वपूर्वतमार्भावं मत्वा लिप्सेत वै सुतम् । उत्तमादेवरात्पुंसः काङ्क्षन्ते पुत्रमापदि। आदिपर्व 120. 33-35. I take ज्ञातिरेताः as an adjective of सहोढ and हीनयोनिधृतः as शौद्र. It has to be noted that the अनुशासनपर्व (49. 3-11) mentions 20 sons in all and employs a peculiar terminology in several cases, viz. औरस (also called अनन्तरज), निरुक्तज (for क्षेत्रज), प्रसूतज (meaning अनियोगोत्पन्न), पतितात्स्त्रभार्यायां जात, and speaks of दत्त, क्रीत, अध्यूढ (= सहोढ), 6 अपध्वंसजs (i. e. अनुलोमs), कानीन and 6 अपसदs (चाण्डाल, व्रात्य, वैद्य, मागध, वामक and सूत). The Anuśāsana (49. 11) expressly states that it is not possible to deny altogether the status of sonship to these sons (पुत्रा ह्येते न शक्यन्ते मिथ्या कर्तुं नराधिप). It then says (49. 20-21) that when a boy is abandoned by his parents and he is brought up by another and his natural parents are not known, he belongs to the caste of the man who brings him up and that even for कानीन and अध्यूढ (सहोढ) sons saṁskāras are to be performed as if they were one's sons (49. 25-26).