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Manu-Smrti 6.78

Manu 6.78

नदीकूलं यथा वृक्षो वृक्षं वा शकुनिर् यथा । तथा त्यजन्न् इमं देहं कृच्छ्राद् ग्राहाद् विमुच्यते ॥

nadīkūlaṃ yathā vṛkṣo vṛkṣaṃ vā śakunir yathā | tathā tyajann imaṃ dehaṃ kṛcchrād grāhād vimucyate ||

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

He who leaves this body, (be it by necessity) as a tree (that is torn from) the riverbanRTbr (freely) like a bird (that) quits a tree, is freed from the misery (of this world, dreadful like) a shark.

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 6.78, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/6.78), 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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