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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.262

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.262

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.262](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.262)

pativratā dharmapatnī pitṛpūjanatatparā  
madhyamaṃ tu tataḥ piṇḍam adyāt samyak sutārthinī //

> The (sacrificer's) first wife, who is faithful and intent on the worship of the manes, may eat the middle-most cake, (if she be) desirous of bearing a son.  
> — 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.3.262) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.262) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.6.247.261) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (6)

- [Gadādharapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.gadadharapaddhati.21.p183) — Gadādhara Rājaguru 1725, Sanskrit
- [Śrāddhakaumudī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.sraddha.mithila_bengal.sraddhakaumudi.6.p7) — Govindānanda 1500, Sanskrit
- [Kālasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.muhurta.kala.kalasara.18.p188) — Nārāyaṇa Jyotirvit, Sanskrit
- [Kālasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.kala.kalasara.18.p188) — Gadādhara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit
- [Śrāddhadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.sraddha.sraddhadipa.8.543) — Divyasiṃha Mahāpātra 1640, Sanskrit
- [Śrāddhacandrikā (Divākarabhaṭṭa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.sraddha.sraddhacandrika.2.p78) — Divākarabhaṭṭa 1655, Sanskrit

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