{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe07/sbe07018.htm","path":"hin/sbe07/sbe07018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/sbe07018.htm","text":"1. On women equal in caste (to their husbands) sons are begotten, who are equal in caste (to their fathers).\n2. On women of lower caste than their husbands sons are begotten, who follow the caste of their mothers.\n3. On women of higher caste than their husbands sons are begotten, who are despised by the twice-born.\n4. Among these, the son of a S\u00fbdra with a Vaisya woman is called \u00c2yogava.\n5. The Pukkasa and M\u00e2gadha are sons of a Vaisya and S\u00fbdra respectively with a Kshatriya woman.\n6. The Kand\u00e2la, Vaidehaka, and S\u00fbta are the sons of a S\u00fbdra, Vaisya, and Kshatriya respectively with a Br\u00e2hmana woman.\n7. Besides these, there are innumerable other mixed castes produced by further intermixture between those that have been mentioned.\n8. \u00c2yogavas must live by artistic performances (such as public wrestling, dancing, and the like).\n9. Pukkasas must live by hunting.\n10. M\u00e2gadhas must live by calling out in public the good qualities (of saleable commodities).\n11. Kand\u00e2las must live by executing criminals sentenced to death.\n[XVI. Y. M. X, 5; Y. I, 90; \u00c2past. II, 6, 13, 1.--4-6. M. X, 11, 12; Y. I, 93, 94; Gaut. IV, 17.--7. M. X, 31.--8-15. M. X, 47-53.--17. M. X, 57.--18. M. X, 62.\n10. According to Manu (X, 47) the M\u00e2gadhas are to live by traffic.]\n12. Vaidehakas must live by keeping (dancing girls and other public) women and profiting by what they earn.\n13. S\u00fbtas must live by managing horses.\n14. Kand\u00e2las must live out of the town, and their clothes must be the mantles of the deceased. In this their condition is different (from, and lower than that of the other mixed castes).\n15. All (members of mixed castes) should have intercourse (of marriage, and other community) only between themselves.\n16. (In the lower castes also) the son inherits the property of his father.\n17. All members of those mixed castes, whether their descent has been kept secret or is generally known, may be found out by their acts.\n18. Desertion of life, regardless of reward, in order to save a Br\u00e2hmana, or a cow, or for the sake of a woman or child, may confer heavenly bliss even upon (members of those) base castes.","title":"XVI.","type":"page"}