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# Manava Dharmashastra 12.91

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 12.91

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [12.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.12.91)

sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṃ sarvabhūtāni cātmani  
samaṃ paśyann ātmayājī svārājyam adhigacchati //

> He who sacrifices to the Self (alone), equally recognising the Self in all created beings and all created beings in the Self, becomes (independent like) an autocrat and self-luminous.  
> — 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.12.91) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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