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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.27

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.27

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.27)

gārbhair homair jātakarmacauḍamauñjīnibandhanaiḥ  
baijikaṃ gārbhikaṃ caino dvijānām apamṛjyate //

> By burnt oblations during (the mother's) pregnancy, by the Gatakarman (the ceremony after birth), the Kauda (tonsure), and the Maungibandhana (the tying of the sacred girdle of Munga grass) is the taint, derived from both parents, removed from twice-born men.  
> — 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.2.27) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.27) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāṭhakagṛhyasūtra (ed. W. Caland, Lahore 1925, with the commentary extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kathaka*caland.30.7.1) — Sanskrit

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