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Manu-Smrti 3.20

Manu 3.20

चतुर्णाम् अपि वर्णानं प्रेत्य च-इह हितअहितान् । अष्टाव् इमान् समासेन स्त्रीविवाहान् निबोधत) ॥

caturṇām api varṇānaṃ pretya ca-iha hita.ahitān | aṣṭāv imān samāsena strīvivāhān nibodhata) ||

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

Now listen to (the) brief (description of) the following eight marriage-rites used by the four castes (varṇa) which partly secure benefits and partly produce evil both in this life and after death.

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 3.20, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/3.20), 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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