Manu 9.6 — Manu-Smrti

Manu 9.6

इमं हि सर्ववर्णानां पश्यन्तो) धर्मम् उत्तमम् । यतन्ते) रक्षितुं भार्यां भर्तारो दुर्बला अपि ॥

imaṃ hi sarvavarṇānāṃ paśyanto) dharmam uttamam | yatante) rakṣituṃ bhāryāṃ bhartāro durbalā api ||

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

Considering that the highest duty of all castes, even weak husbands (must) strive to guard their wives.

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 9.6, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Manu/9.6), 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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