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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.274

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.274

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.274](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.274)

api naḥ sa kule bhūyād yo no dadyāt trayodaśīm  
pāyasaṃ madhusarpirbhyāṃ prāk chāye kuñjarasya ca //

> 'May such a man (the manes say) be born in our family who will give us milk-rice, with honey and clarified butter, on the thirteenth lunar day (of the month of Bhadrapada) and (in the afternoon) when the shadow of an elephant falls towards the east.'  
> — 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.3.274) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.274) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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