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Manu-Smrti 10.83

Manu 10.83

वैश्यवृत्त्या-अपि जीवंस्) तु ब्राह्मणः क्सत्रियो ऽअपि वा । हिंसाप्रायां पराधीनां कृषिं यत्नेन वर्जयेत्) ॥

vaiśyavṛttyā-api jīvaṃs) tu brāhmaṇaḥ ksatriyo 'api vā | hiṃsā.prāyāṃ parādhīnāṃ kṛṣiṃ yatnena varjayet) ||

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

But a Brāhmaṇa, or a Kshatriya, living by a Vai-sya's mode of subsistence, shall carefully avoid (the pursuit of) agriculture, (which causes) injury to many beings and depends on others. T^84. (Some) "declare that agriculture is something I excellent, (but) that means of subsistence is blamed

Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.

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Cite as: Manu-Smrti 10.83, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/10.83), after GRETIL, Manusmrti Typed, analyzed and proofread by M.YANO and Y.IKARI (May-June 1991, January-April1992,….

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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).

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