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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.4

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.4)

guruṇānumataḥ snātvā samāvṛtto yathāvidhi  
udvaheta dvijo bhāryāṃ savarṇāṃ lakṣaṇānvitām //

> Having bathed, with the permission of his teacher, and performed according to the rule the Samavartana (the rite on returning home), a twice-born man shall marry a wife of equal caste who is endowed with auspicious (bodily) marks.  
> — 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.3.4) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.4) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.31.p18) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskararatnamala.21.11.p3.1) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka, Sanskrit
- [Saṃskārabhāskara (Ṛṣibudha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara.2.p29.1) — Ṛṣibudha, Sanskrit
- [Saṃskārabhāskara (Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara-khandabhatta.2.p29.1) — Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Saṃskārabhāskara (Siddheśvara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara-siddhesvara.2.p29.1) — Siddheśvara 1630, Sanskrit

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