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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.11

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.11)

yo 'vamanyeta te mūle hetuśāstrāśrayād dvijaḥ  
sa sādhubhir bahiṣkāryo nāstiko vedanindakaḥ //

> Every twice-born man, who, relying on the Institutes of dialectics, treats with contempt those two sources (of the law), must be cast out by the virtuous, as an atheist and a scorner of the Veda.  
> — 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.2.11) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.11) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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