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# Manava Dharmashastra 11.164

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 11.164

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [11.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.11.164)

dravyāṇām alpasārāṇāṃ steyaṃ  
caret sāṃtapanaṃ kṛcchraṃ tan niryāty ātmaśuddhaye //

> The lunar penance has been declared to be the expiation for stealing men and women, and (for wrongfully appropriating) a field, a house, or the water of wells and cisterns.  
> — 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.11.164) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.16.153.163) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.169.29) — Sanskrit
- [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.33.2) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.52.7) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit
- [Prāyaścittamayūkha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayascitta.bhatta.prayascittamayukha.12.57) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtimuktāphala](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtimuktaphala.7.340.3) — Vaidyanātha Dīkṣita 1575, Sanskrit

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