Manu 5.129
नित्यं शुद्धः कारुहस्तः पण्ये यच् च प्रसारितम् । [म्पण्यं] ब्रह्मचारिगतं भैक्ष्यं नित्यं मेध्यम् इति स्थितिः ॥
nityaṃ śuddhaḥ kāru.hastaḥ paṇye yac ca prasāritam | [M.paṇyaṃ] brahmacārigataṃ bhaikṣyaṃ nityaṃ medhyam iti sthitiḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The hand of an artisan is always pure, so is (every vendible commodity) exposed for sale in vultures, and other impure ones '
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.