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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.134

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.134

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.134)

daśābdākhyaṃ paurasakhyaṃ pañcābdākhyaṃ kalābhṛtām  
tryabdapūrvaṃ śrotriyāṇāṃ svalpenāpi svayoniṣu //

> Fellow-citizens are called friends (and equals though one be) ten years (older than the other), men practising (the same) fine art (though one be) five years (older than the other), Srotriyas (though) three years (intervene between their ages), but blood-relations only (if the) difference of age be very small.  
> — 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.2.134) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.134) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.28.p40) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.1.31.p1.11) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit

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