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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.190

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.190

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.190)

ketitas tu yathānyāyaṃ havye kavye dvijottamaḥ  
kathaṃ cid apy atikrāman pāpaḥ sūkaratāṃ vrajet //

> But a Brahmana who, being duly invited to a rite in honour of the gods or of the manes, in any way breaks (the appointment), becomes guilty (of a crime), and (in his next birth) a hog.  
> — 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.3.190) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.190) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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