anyavījaja

anyavījaja Tatpur. m. (-jaḥ) Liter. born from another's seed, i. e.

a boy who may be adopted as a son in want of a legitimate

son (see aurasa) and become heir to the property, but who

remains nevertheless the son of his real father; such sub-

stituted sons are the following eleven, each succeeding being

inferior in degree to each preceding (according to the order

assigned to them by Manu): the kṣetraja, datrima (or dattaka), kṛ-

trima, gūḍhotpanna (or gūḍhaja), apaviddha, kānīna, sahoḍha (or sahoḍhaja),

krītaka (or krīta), paunarbhava, svayaṃdatta and pāraśava qq. vv. See

also anyavījotpanna, anyavījasamudbhava, anyaśākhodbhava, dvyāmu-

ṣyāyaṇa and putrapraticchandaka, putrapratinidhi. E. anya-vīja and ja.