Manu 4.137 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 4.137

न-आत्मानम् अवमन्येत) पुर्वाभिर् असमृद्धिभिः । आ मृत्योः श्रियम् अन्विच्छेन्) न-एनां मन्येत) दुर्लभाम् ॥

na-ātmānam avamanyeta) purvābhir a.samṛddhibhiḥ | ā mṛtyoḥ śriyam anvicchen) na-enāṃ manyeta) dur.labhām ||

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

Let him not despise himself on account of former failures; until death let him seek fortune, nor despair of gaining it.

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 4.137, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/4.137), 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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