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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.68

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 68

जारजपुत्रनिरूपणम्The son of a lover

Verse 68

उद्वाहाद् द्वादशे पक्षे पत्यन्तात् गतहायने । प्रसूते तनयं योग्यं न सा पत्नी न सः सुतः ॥ ६८ ॥

udvāhād dvādaśē pakṣē patyantāt gatahāyanē | prasūtē tanayaṁ yōgyaṁ na sā patnī na saḥ sutaḥ || 68 ||

Translation

A woman who bears a well-formed son in the twelfth fortnight after marriage, or a year after her husband's death: she is not a wife, nor he a son.

Word by word

udvāhāt
(udvāhāt) after marriage
dvādaśē
in the twelfth
pakṣē
fortnight
pati
of the husband
antāt
(antāt) after the death
gata
passed
hāyanē
a year
prasūtē
bears
tanayaṁ
a son
yōgyaṁ
well-formed
na
not
sā
she
patnī
a wife
saḥ
(saḥ) he
sutaḥ
(sutaḥ) a son

Meaning

A full-term child six months after marriage, or a year after the husband's death, cannot be the husband's.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he excludes the status of wife and son for a woman who bears a son in the sixth month after marriage, and for one who bears a son a year after the husband's death, with "udvāhāt" and the rest. The woman who bears a fit, well-developed son in the twelfth fortnight, the sixth month, after marriage, and the woman who bears a son when a year has passed since the husband's death: she is not a wife and he is not a son. Knowing her to be unchaste and the child born of a lover, he should abandon both: that is the sense.