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n. According to the Mulukī Ain (MA-54 Ed. 1 115.4 and 151.6), offspring born of a Brahmin man to a concubine Upādhyāya or Jaisī woman who is not his relative and who has been married to two husbands before, or offspring born of an Upādhyāya or Jaisī Brahmin to a concubine girl or widow who belongs to a Daśanāmī, Jogī, Jaṇgama, Sannyāsī, Sevaḍā, Kānaphaṭṭā, Vairāgī ascetics or the like are classified as Bhāṭas. The NBŚ’s classification of Bhāṭas slightly differs from the MA: offspring born of a Brahmin man to a Sannyāsī woman, or born of a Tīna-Liṅga-Jaisī to a Jaisī woman from the same caste or from a caste of Khasa-Kṣatriyas are categorized as Bhātas.
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