Manu 12.78 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 12.78

असकृद् गर्भवासेषु वासं जन्म च दारुणम् । बन्धनानि च काष्ठानि परप्रेष्यत्वम् एव च ॥ [म्कष्टानि]

asakṛd garbhavāseṣu vāsaṃ janma ca dāruṇam | bandhanāni ca kāṣṭhāni parapreṣyatvam eva ca || [M.kaṣṭāni]

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

The (pain of) repeatedly lying in various wombs and agonizing births, imprisonment in fetter hard to bear, and the misery of being enslaved b others,

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 12.78, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/12.78), 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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