Library·Manu-Smrti·1·1.2
भगवन् सर्ववर्णानां यथावद् अनुपूर्वशः । अन्तरप्रभवानां च धर्मान् नो वक्तुम् अर्हसि) ॥
bhagavan sarvavarṇānāṃ yathāvad anupūrvaśaḥ | antaraprabhavānāṃ ca dharmān no vaktum arhasi) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
'Deign, divine one, to declare to us precisely and in due order the sacred laws of each of the (four chief) castes (varna) and of the intermediate ones.
Translated by Georg Bühler
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Cite as: Manu-Smrti 1.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/1.2), after GRETIL, Manusmrti Typed, analyzed and proofread by M.YANO and Y.IKARI (May-June 1991, January-April1992,….
GRETIL 6_sastra/4_dharma/smrti/manu1__u.htm — Manusmrti Typed, analyzed and proofread by M.YANO and Y.IKARI (May-June 1991, January-April1992, March-April 1996) K: Manusmrti with the Sanskrit Commentary Manvartha-Muktavali of Kulluka Bhatta, ed. J.L.Shastri 1983. (Compared with the edition of Kashi Skt Se
GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. English: Georg Bühler, SBE XXV (1886), public domain (chapters aligned by verse number after count and evidence checks; scan text where noted).