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Manava Dharmashastra 2.65

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.65

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Sanskrit

2.65

keśāntaḥ ṣoḍaśe varṣe brāhmaṇasya vidhīyate
rājanyabandhor dvāviṃśe vaiśyasya dvyadhike mataḥ //

(The ceremony called) Kesanta (clipping the hair) is ordained for a Brahmana in the sixteenth year (from conception); for a Kshatriya, in the twenty-second; and for a Vaisya, two (years) later than that.

Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu

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