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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.135

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.135

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.135)

brāhmaṇaṃ daśavarṣaṃ tu śatavarṣaṃ tu bhūmipam  
pitāputrau vijānīyād brāhmaṇas tu tayoḥ pitā //

> Know that a Brahmana of ten years and Kshatriya of a hundred years stand to each other in the relation of father and son; but between those two the Brahmana is the father.  
> — 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.2.135) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.135) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (4)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.2.p15) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.28.p41) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Nityācārapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityacarapradipa.5.p201) — Narasiṃha Vājapeyin, Sanskrit
- [Ācārasāra (Gadādhara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.acarasara-gadadhara.6.p14) — Gadādhara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit

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