Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.105

v1.c6.105

svairiṇyām yaç ca jāyate (conceived by the woman in adultery, that is = kuṇḍa, gūḍhotpanna, gūḍhaja). The six sons that can inherit but do not belong to the family are called; 1st, datta (“given away by father and mother,” as Nil. says, but here also probably as a small child, that is, adoptatio) ; 2nd, kṛtima (bought from the parents) ; 3rd, kṛtrima, “ and (therefore) he that himself goes thither,” that is, the svayamdatta, while kṛtrima or kṛita is otherwise the son that is taken over as a grown up ; 4th, sahoḍha (with whom the mother was at the wedding already pregnant by another man) ; 5th, jñātiretas (“seed of kinsman,” that is, begotten in the levirate) ; 6th, hīnayonidhṛta (begotten of a woman from a low caste, that is, especially the “Çūdra son ”.¹