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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.146

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.146

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.146)

eṣām anyatamo yasya bhuñjīta śrāddham arcitaḥ  
pitṝṇāṃ tasya tṛptiḥ syāc chāśvatī sāptapauruṣī //

> If one of these three dines, duly honoured, at a funeral sacrifice, the ancestors of him (who gives the feast), as far as the seventh person, will be satisfied for a very long time.  
> — 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.3.146) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.146) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Śrāddhacandrikā (Divākarabhaṭṭa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.sraddha.sraddhacandrika.2.p2) — Divākarabhaṭṭa 1655, Sanskrit
- [Nṛsiṃhaprasāda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.nrsimhaprasada.p59) — Dalapatirāja 1511, Sanskrit

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