Manu 9.100
न-अनुशुश्रुम) जातु-एतत् पूर्वेष्व् अपि हि जन्मसु । शुल्कसंज्ञेन मूल्येन छन्नं दुहितृविक्रयम् ॥
na-anuśuśruma) jātu-etat pūrveṣv api hi janmasu | śulka.saṃjñena mūlyena channaṃ duhitṛvikrayam ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such (a thing as) the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.. ' Let mutual fidelity continue until death/ this may be considered as the summary of the highest law for husband and wife.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.