Manu 9.9
यादृशं भजते) हि स्त्री सुतं सूते) तथाविधम् । तस्मात् प्रजाविशुद्धिअर्थं स्त्रियं रक्षेत्) प्रयत्नतः ॥
yādṛśaṃ bhajate) hi strī sutaṃ sūte) tathāvidham | tasmāt prajāviśuddhi.arthaṃ striyaṃ rakṣet) prayatnataḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
As the male is to whom a wife cleaves, even so is the son whom she brings forth; let him therefore carefully guard his wife, in order to keep his offspring pure.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.