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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.181

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.181

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.181)

yat tu vāṇijake dattaṃ neha nāmutra tad bhavet  
bhasmanīva hutaṃ dravyaṃ tathā paunarbhave dvije //

> What has been given to a Brahmana who lives by trade that is not (useful) in this world and the next, and (a present) to a Brahmana born of a remarried woman (resembles) an oblation thrown into ashes.  
> — 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.3.181) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.181) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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