Manu 9.89
कामम् आ मरणात् तिष्ठेद्) गृहे कन्या-ऋतुमत्य् अपि । न च-एव-एनां प्रयच्चेत्) तु गुणहीनाय कर्हि चित् ॥
kāmam ā maraṇāt tiṣṭhed) gṛhe kanyā-ṛtumaty api | na ca-eva-enāṃ prayaccet) tu guṇa.hīnāya karhi cit ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
(But) the maiden, though marriageable, should rather stop in (the father's) house until death, than that he should ever give her to a man destitute of good qualities.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.