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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.79

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 2.79

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.79)

sahasrakṛtvas tv abhyasya bahir etat trikaṃ dvijaḥ  
mahato 'py enaso māsāt tvacevāhir vimucyate //

> A twice-born man who (daily) repeats those three one thousand times outside (the village), will be freed after a month even from great guilt, as a snake from its slough.  
> — 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.2.79) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.79) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.1.p648) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Ācāracintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.acaracintamani.1.p417) — Vācaspatimiśra, Sanskrit

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