Manu 3.53 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 3.53

आर्षे गोमिथुनं शुल्कं के चिद् आहुर्) मृषा-एव तत् । अल्पो ऽअप्य् एवं महान् वा-अपि विक्रयस् तावद् एव सः ॥ [म्तावान् एव स विक्रयः]

ārṣe gomithunaṃ śulkaṃ ke cid āhur) mṛṣā-eva tat | alpo 'apy evaṃ mahān vā-api vikrayas tāvad eva saḥ || [M.tāvān eva sa vikrayaḥ]

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

Some call the cow and the bull (given) at an Arsha wedding 'a gratuity;' (but) that is wrong, since (the acceptance of) a fee, be it small or great, is a sale (of the daughter).

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 3.53, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/3.53), 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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