History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t1.88

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¹²²⁹ औरसः पुत्रिका बीजिक्षेत्रजौ पुत्रिकासुतः । पौनर्भवश्च कानीनः सहोढो गृहसंभवः । दत्तः क्रीतः स्वयंदत्तः कृत्रिमश्चापविद्धकः । यत्र क्वचोत्पादितश्च पुत्राख्या दश पञ्च च ॥ स्मृति q. by हरदत्त on गौ. 28. 32, दत्त. मी. p. 68. The compound बीजिक्षेत्रजौ is to be taken as बीजिज and क्षेत्रज. The word *bījin* is the epithet of the man who is appointed to beget issue in the practice of *niyoga*, the बीजिज being the son begotten by such a man, who (the son) is deemed by some to be the son of both (of the begetter and of the husband of the wife). Dr. Jolly in Tagore Law Lectures on partition &c. p. 146 is wrong in taking 'bijin' as 'the son procreated with another man's wife'. 'Bijin' is employed by Gaut. IV. 3 and Manu IX. 51-53 in the sense given above. Vide *H. of Dh.* II. p. 599 n. 1409 for bijin, kṣetra (meaning wife) and kṣetrika. तद्ध्यपरस्त्रियाः पुत्रौ द्वौ सुतौ कुण्डगोलकौ । पत्यौ जीवति कुण्डः स्यान्मृते भर्तरि गोलकः ॥ औरसः क्षेत्रजश्चैव दत्तः कृत्रिमकः सुतः। दद्यान्माता पिता वापि स पुत्रो वृत्तको भवेत् ॥ पराशर IV. 23-24. Laghu-Āśvalāyana (21. 14-15) says that though certain sages provide that the Kuṇḍa and Golaka sons should have the saṁskāras performed on them, that was the practice in other ages and that it is prohibited in the Kali age.