Manusmriti 12.114
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 12.114
- Language
- Sanskrit
12.114
avratānām amantrāṇāṃ jātimātropajīvinām
sahasraśaḥ sametānāṃ pariṣattvaṃ na vidyate //
Even if thousands of Brahmanas, who have not fulfilled their sacred duties, are unacquainted with the Veda, and subsist only by the name of their caste, meet, they cannot (form) an assembly (for settling the sacred law).
Translations (1)
- The Laws of Manu — Georg Bühler 1886, English
Commentaries (6)
- Manvāśrayānusāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manubhāṣya — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- Manvarthamuktāvalī — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Manvarthacandrikā — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Nārāyaṇa — Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Mānavāryabhāṣya — Sanskrit
Discussed in (3)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) — Mookerji 1947, English
- The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin — Hopkins 1901, English