शैवापत्यजातिनिर्णयःThe class of the children of a Śaiva marriage
Verse 281
शैवभार्योद्भवापत्यमनुलोमेन मातृवत् । समाचरेद्विलोमेन तत्तु मामान्यजातिवत् ॥ २८१ ॥
śaivabhāryōdbhavāpatyamanulōmēna mātṛvat | samācarēdvilōmēna tattu māmānyajātivat || 281 ||
Translation
A child of a Śaiva wife, in the natural order, follows its mother; in the reverse order, it is of the common class.
Word by word
- śaiva
- Śaiva
- bhāryā
- of the wife
- udbhava
- born
- apatyam
- (apatyam) the child
- anulōmēna
- in the natural order
- mātṛvat
- (mātṛvat) like the mother
- samācarēt
- (samācaret) shall do the rites
- vilōmēna
- in the reverse order
- tat
- (tat) that one
- tu
- but
- māmānya
- (sāmānya) of the common
- jātivat
- like the class
Meaning
The class of children of a Śaiva marriage. If the wife is of a lower class than the husband (anuloma), the child takes the mother's class and rites: the ṭīkā's example is a brāhmaṇa father and a kṣatriya Śaiva wife, whose child is a kṣatriya. If she is of a higher class (viloma), the child is of the sāmānya, the fifth class, as the commentary reads it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Śaivabhāryā" and the rest. A child born of a Śaiva wife, if she is of the class in the natural order (anuloma, of lower class than the husband), shall do the rites like the mother: as, a child born to a brāhmaṇa from a Śaiva wife who is a kṣatriya shall do the rites like a kṣatriya. But a child born of a Śaiva wife of the reverse order (viloma, of higher class than the husband) shall do the rites like the common class (sāmānya jāti), like the fifth class.