Manu 3.54 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 3.54

यासां न-आददते) शुल्कं ज्ञातयो न स विक्रयः । अर्हणं तत् कुमारीणाम् आनृशंस्यं च केवलम् ॥ [म्न केवलम्]

yāsāṃ na-ādadate) śulkaṃ jñātayo na sa vikrayaḥ | arhaṇaṃ tat kumārīṇām ānṛśaṃsyaṃ ca kevalam || [M.na kevalam]

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

When the relatives do not appropriate (for their use) the gratuity (given), it is not a sale; (in that case) the (gift) is only a token of respect and of kindness towards the maidens.

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 3.54, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/3.54), 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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