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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.159

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.159

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.159)

pitrā vivadamānaś ca kitavo madyapas tathā  
pāparogy abhiśastaś ca dāmbhiko rasavikrayī //

> He who wrangles or goes to law with his father, the keeper of a gambling-house, a drunkard, he who is afflicted with a disease (in punishment of former) crimes, he who is accused of a mortal sin, a hypocrite, a seller of substances used for flavouring food,  
> — 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.3.159) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.159) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.16.205.65) — Sanskrit

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