Manu 4.138 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 4.138

सत्यं ब्रूयात्) प्रियं ब्रूयान् न ब्रूयात् सत्यम् अप्रियम् । प्रियं च न-अनृतं ब्रूयाद्) एष धर्मः सनातनः ॥

satyaṃ brūyāt) priyaṃ brūyān na brūyāt satyam apriyam | priyaṃ ca na-anṛtaṃ brūyād) eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ ||

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

Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law. animal,' is not clearly explained by

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 4.138, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/4.138), 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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