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Manu-Smrti 5.17

Manu 5.17

न भक्षयेद् एकचरान् अज्ञातांश् च मृगद्विजान् । भक्ष्येष्व् अपि समुद्दिष्टान् सर्वान् पञ्चनखांस् तथा ॥

na bhakṣayed ekacarān ajñātāṃś ca mṛga.dvijān | bhakṣyeṣv api samuddiṣṭān sarvān pañcanakhāṃs tathā ||

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

Let him not eat solitary or unknown beasts and birds, though they may fall under (the categories of) eatable (creatures), nor any five-toed (animals).

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 5.17, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/5.17), 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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