Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

10.60. Even if a man, born in a great family, sprang from criminal intercourse, he will certainly possess the
faults of his (father), be they small or great.
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10.61. But that kingdom in which such bastards, sullying (the purity of) the castes, are born, perishes quickly
together with its inhabitants.
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10.62. Dying, without the expectation of a reward, for the sake of Brahmanas and of cows, or in the defence of
women and children, secures beatitude to those excluded (from the Aryan community, vahya.)
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10.63. Abstention from injuring (creatures), veracity, abstention from unlawfully appropriating (the goods of
others), purity, and control of the organs, Manu has declared to be the summary of the law for the four castes.
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10.64. If (a female of the caste), sprung from a Brahmana and a Sudra female, bear (children) to one of the
highest caste, the inferior (tribe) attains the highest caste within the seventh generation.
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10.65. (Thus) a Sudra attains the rank of a Brahmana, and (in a similar manner) a Brahmana sinks to the level of
a Sudra; but know that it is the same with the offspring of a Kshatriya or of a Vaisya.
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10.66. If (a doubt) should arise, with whom the preeminence (is, whether) with him whom an Aryan by chance
begot on a non-Aryan female, or (with the son) of a Brahmana woman by a non-Aryan,
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10.67. The decision is as follows: ’He who was begotten by an Aryan on a non-Aryan female, may become (like
to) an Aryan by his virtues; he whom an Aryan (mother) bore to a non-Aryan father (is and remains) unlike to
an Aryan.’
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10.68. The law prescribes that neither of the two shall receive the sacraments, the first (being excluded) on
account of the lowness of his origin, the second (because the union of his parents was) against the order of the
castes.
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10.69. As good seed, springing up in good soil, turns out perfectly well, even so the son of an Aryan by an
Aryan woman is worthy of all the sacraments.
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