History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.461

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155 also provides that the son of a man of the three higher castes from a śūdra woman (not married to him) is not entitled to share in the ancestral estate. Bṛ. (S.B.E. 33 p. 374 v. 31) states ¹⁵⁷³ that an obedient and meritorious son born from a woman of the śūdra caste to a man who has no other child should get maintenance and that the sapiṇḍas should divide the rest of the wealth of the deceased. Both the Mit. and the V. Mayūkha, while explaining Yāj. II. 133-154 about the rights of the illegitimate son of a śūdra from a śūdra woman, remark that one who is begotten on a *dāsī* ¹⁵⁷⁴ by a member of the regenerate classes is not entitled to a share even at the father's choice nor to a half share after his father's death but that he is only entitled to maintenance. ¹⁵⁷⁵