History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.374

v5.c72.374

Even if a person's wife left him and lived in illicit relationship with a person of the same or higher caste he had to observe on her death āśauca for one day But if she lived with one lower in varṇa than her husband, the latter had not, on her death, to observe any āśauca at all (Yāj III 6) Similarly, one had to observe one day's āśauca on the death of sons that were not aurasa (such as kṣetraja) Vide Yāj III. 25 and Viṣṇu 22 42-43