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# Manava Dharmashastra 1.83

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 1.83

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.1.83)

arogāḥ sarvasiddhārthāś caturvarṣaśatāyuṣaḥ  
kṛte tretādiṣu hy eṣāṃ pādaśaḥ //

> (Men are) free from disease, accomplish all their aims, and live four hundred years in the Krita age, but in the Treta and (in each of) the succeeding (ages) their life is lessened by one quarter.  
> — Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Laws of Manu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu~en-buhler.1.83) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.1.83) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Critical edition (BORI)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*crit.12.224.24) — Sanskrit

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