VYAVASTHA?.DAR.PANA. 17 •SECTION III. SUCCESSION OF THE SON. (AND IN THE MALE LINE OF) THE GRANDSON AND THE GREAT GRANDSON. 7. When a person's right of property ceases by death, by degree dation, by the quitting of the condition of a house-holder, or by voluntary abandonment: – The right devolves on the son (a)*. Male issue (in the male line) being left, the estate must go to them. t Boudha yana. Ya) By the term “ son,” in the present age, is meant only the Ourasa and Dattaka (sons).; So, if there be a Dattuka son, adopted before the birth of the Ourasa son, the former will inherit with the latter. The extent of the Dattaka's share in such case, and the other particulars regarding him, will be found in the part treating of adoption. Ourasa is the issue of the (uras breast i. e.) body, and born of a (patns) wife legally married. Thus Manu :-"Him, whom a man begets on his own wife legally married, let him know to be the Ourasa son: first in rank.” (Ch. 9, v. 186). Ourasa, however, is of two kinds—I. Born of a wife of equal class, and, II. Born of a wife of unequal class. But in the Kali age the marriage with a damsel of unequal class having been prohibited, (see the following note), and consequently the son born of such a wife not being entitled to inherit, by the term “Ourasa” we must now under stand only the son begotten by the man himself on his legally married wife of equal class. Raghumandana, it is clear, has quoted in his Udba hatatwa, only, Voudha'yana's text.—“A son who was begotten by a man on his weded wife of equal class, let him know to be Ourasa (son)"—because he found it expressive of the son who is now considered Ourasa. He who is given (in adoption) by his mother with her husband's consent, or by his father, or by both, to a person of the same class, is his Dattaka or son given. This will be fully described in the part treating- of adoption.
- Coleb. Dá. bhá. Ch. XI. Sect. I. para 31, 32; Dá. T. p. 2; D. Cr. sing. Ch. I. p. I; Coleb. Dig. B. V, Ch. I. Text 8. (Vol. II. p. 520, 521); Macn. H. L. Vol. I, Ch. II. p. 17 ; Cons. H. L. p. 1. -
t Dá. T. p. 2; Dá blá. Ch. IV. Sect. 2. para 21; Coleb Dig B.V. Ch. I. Text 3. (vol. II. p. 520) t In jugas (yugas) or ages other than the Kali, there were 12 kinds of sons, as described by Jagy*valkya — 1 An Ourasa son is one born of a dharma wife (R. & M. See wife's succession); equal to him is-2 the puttrika'-puttra (See daughter's succession). 3 The son of the (soil or) wife, is one begotten on her by a man sprung from the same original stock (with the husband), or by another duly *uthorized by the husband. A son brought forth in private, in the (husband's) house, is called—4 the son of hidden origin. 5. A Kantna son is one born of an unmarried woman : (he is) considered the son of the maternal grandfather; 6 A son of the twice married is one born of a woman (by a second marri.
- ge) whether she be (at the time of that marriage) a maid or not. 7 A son by gift is one who is made a gift of either by his father or his mother (R. & M.)
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