aputra

E. a neg. putra a son, also with kana added, aputrakaḥ.

neg. and putra.

II. Bahuvr. m. f. (-traḥ-trā) Sonless; one who has either

had no son or lost his (her) son or sons (aputro'jātaputro mṛta-

putro vā) and is legally held to adopt one (Atri: aputreṇaiva

kartavyaḥ putrapratinidhiḥ sadā . piṇḍodakakriyāhetoryasmāttasmā-

tprayatnataḥ). Manu uses the term also impliedly of a man

who has no son by a woman of the three first classes,

although he may have a son by a Śūdrā woman, as re-

sults from this verse: yadyapi syāttu satputro yadyaputro'pi vā

bhavet . nādhikaṃ daśamāddadyācchūdrāputrāya dharmataḥ (and Vṛ-

haspati employs in a similar manner the term anapatya, viz.

anapatyasya śuśrūṣurguṇavāñchūdrayonijaḥ . labhetājīvanaṃ śeṣaṃ sapi-

ṇḍāḥ samavāpnuyuḥ); when Jīmūtavāhana moreover observes

that the son of a Śūdrā in this verse applies to the legiti-

mate son, the Pāraśava (q. v.) being the son of a Brāhmana

by a Śūdrā not wedded to him (yaccāha manuḥ . yaṃ brāhmaṇastu

śūdrāyāṃ &c. Manu 9. 178. . tadapariṇītaśūdrāsutābhiprāyam;

contrary to Kullūka who defines him as pariṇītāyāmeva

śūdrāyāṃ brāhmaṇaḥ kāmādyaṃ putraṃ janayet &c.).--A wife who

has no son must be approached for the sake of getting one

by her brother-in-law or by one of her relatives of the

Sapiṇḍa class.--Although Likhita places a man who has

no son in the same category with an impious man, a usurer

and a Śūdra, when he inflicts a fast of three days on any

one who eats the food of such a person (bhuktvā vārdhuṣika-

syānnamavratasyāsutasya ca . śūdrasya ca tathā bhuktvā trirātraṃ syāda-

bhojanam), the present edition of Pāṇini gives aputra in a

Gaṇa (to VIII. 1. 67.) as a honorific term when it is the first

part of a Karmadh. (the latter part of such a compound

being anudātta); but on the other hand, as aputra is one of

the thirty-four nativities from the knowledge of which

Śākyamuni derives a special name (comp. catustriṃśajjāta-

kajña), it would seem that the word in this sense belongs

rather to the Buddhistic than to the Brāhmanic literature;

compare e. g. the Pāli word aputtakaseṭṭhī, in Fansböll's

Dhammapadam p. 415. The Kāśikā does not mention aputra

in the Gaṇa alluded to. E. a priv. and putra.

m. (-traḥ) A man who has no son.

E. a neg. putra a son, also with
kan added, aputrakaḥ.