When a man, desiring to have a son, marries a girl quick with child, the son born of his wife must belong to him, for it is the fruit of his own soil. The person from whose vital seed the son has sprung, can have no right to such son.
पुत्रकामो हि पुत्रार्थं यां वृणीते विशाम्पते। क्षेत्रजं तु प्रमाणं स्यान्न वै तत्रात्मजः सुतः॥