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Manu-Smrti 3.44

Manu 3.44

शरः क्षत्रियया ग्राह्यः) प्रतोदो वैश्यकन्यया । वसनस्य दशा ग्राह्या) शूद्रया-उत्कृष्टवेदने ॥

śaraḥ kṣatriyayā grāhyaḥ) pratodo vaiśyakanyayā | vasanasya daśā grāhyā) śūdrayā-utkṛṣṭavedane ||

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

On marrying a man of a higher caste a Kshatriya bride must take hold of an arrow, a Vaiśya bride of a goad, and a 6udra female of the hem of the (bridegroom's) garment.

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 3.44, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/3.44), 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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