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# Manava Dharmashastra 11.173

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 11.173

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [11.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.11.173)

amānuṣīṣū puruṣa udakyāyām ayoniṣu  
retaḥ siktvā jale caiva kṛcchraṃ sāṃtapanaṃ caret //

> A wise man should not take as his wife any of these three; they must not be wedded because they are (Sapinda-) relatives, he who marries (one of them), sinks low.  
> — 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.11.173) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.16.153.172) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-manuvakyalankarini.16.153.172) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvāśrayānusāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-bhatta.16.153.172) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- [Mānavāryabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!manavaryabhasya) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.169.36) — Sanskrit
- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c6.s16.t2.17) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.16.8) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit

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