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Manu-Smrti 2.31

Manu 2.31

मङ्गल्यं ब्राह्मणस्य स्यात् क्षत्रियस्य बलान्वितम् । वैश्यस्य धनसंयुक्तं शूद्रस्य तु जुगुप्सितम् ॥

maṅgalyaṃ brāhmaṇasya syāt kṣatriyasya balānvitam | vaiśyasya dhanasaṃyuktaṃ śūdrasya tu jugupsitam ||

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

Let (the first part of) a Brāhmaṇa's name (denote something) auspicious, a Kshatriya's be connected with power, and a Vaisya's with wealth, but a 6udra's (express something) contemptible. y

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 2.31, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/2.31), 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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