The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

XV, 27. INHERITANCE. g3
10. The son of an unmarried damsel is the
fifth.
11. (He is called so who is) born by an un-
married daughter in the house of her father.
12. And he belongs to the man who (afterwards)
marries the mother.
13. The son who is secretly born in the house
is the sixth.
14. He belongs to him in whose bed he is born.
15. The son received with a bride is the seventh.
16. He (is called so who) is the son of a woman
married while she was pregnant.
17. And he belongs to the husband (of the preg-
nant bride).
18. The adopted son (dattaka) is the eighth.
19. And he belongs to him to whom he is given
by his mother or father.
20. The son bought is the ninth.
21. And he belongs to him by whom he is
bought.
22. The son self-given is the tenth.
23. And he belongs to him to whom he gave
himself.
24. The son cast away is the eleventh.
25. (He is called so) who was forsaken by his
father or mother (or by both).
26. And he belongs to him by whom he is
received.
27. The son born by any woman whomsoever1
is the twelfth.

27. 1 Yatra kva^anotpadita, ‘born wherever,’means, according to
Nand., ‘ begotten anyhow, but otherwise than the above-mentioned
sons, upon a woman, whether one’s own wife, or another man’s
wife, whether equal in caste or not, whether legally married to the