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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.227

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.227

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.227](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.227)

yaṃ mātāpitarau kleśaṃ sahete saṃbhave nṛṇām  
na tasya niṣkṛtiḥ śakyā kartuṃ varṣaśatair api //

> That trouble (and pain) which the parents undergo on the birth of (their) children, cannot be compensated even in a hundred years.  
> — 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.2.227) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.227) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.2.205.226) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

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