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Manu-Smrti 3.21

Manu 3.21

ब्राह्मो दैवस् तथा-एव-आर्षः प्राजापत्यस् तथा-असुरः । गान्धर्वो राक्षसश् च-एव पैशाचश् च-अष्टमो ऽअधमः ॥

brāhmo daivas tathā-eva-ārṣaḥ prājāpatyas tathā-asuraḥ | gāndharvo rākṣasaś ca-eva paiśācaś ca-aṣṭamo 'adhamaḥ ||

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

(They are) the rite of Brahman (Brahma), that of the gods (Daiva), that of the i^zshis (Arsha), that of Prajāpati (Pra^apatya), that of the Asuras (Asura), that of the Gandharvas (Gandharva), that of the Rakshasas (Rakshasa), and that of the Pisa- /£as (Pai^a/^a).

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

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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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