[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Manava Dharmashastra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) › 3.37 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.37 Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.37 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.37) daśa pūrvān parān vaṃśyān ātmānaṃ caikaviṃśakam brāhmīputraḥ sukṛtakṛn mocayaty enasaḥ pitṝn // > The son of a wife wedded according to the Brahma rite, if he performs meritorious acts, liberates from sin ten ancestors, ten descendants and himself as the twenty-first. > — Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu - [Previous: 3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.36) - [Next: 3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.38) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3) ## Translations (1) - [The Laws of Manu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu~en-buhler.3.37) — Georg Bühler 1886, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.37) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.3.p170) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Gṛhastharatnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.grhastharatnakara.5.p74) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.37) · Pramāṇa