Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.99

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except when the wife herself has come into the house (of the strange man).” From this it will be seen that: if the child is to be looked on as the husband’s child, then it must be begotten in the husband’s house; but if the outsider begets it in his own house, then he has his own, natural, absolute, right to the fruit of the union—a view very easily understood. Cf. Kauṭilya (transl.), 260.1–18, and especially the addition to it.