According to Manu, if the child of a Brahman by a Sudra woman intermarried with Brahmans and his descendants after him, their progeny in the seventh generation would become full Brahmans; and the same was the case with the child of a Kshatriya or a Vaishya with a Sudra woman.

A commentator remarks that the descendants of a Brahman by a Kshatriya woman could attain Brahmanhood in the third generation, and those by a Vaishya woman in the fifth.

[40] Such children also could inherit.

According to the Mahabharata, if a Brahman had four wives of different castes, the son by a Brahman wife took four shares, that by a Kshatriya wife three, by a Vaishya wife two, and by a Sudra wife one share.

[41] Manu gives a slightly different distribution, but also permits to the son by a Sudra wife a share of the inheritance.