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# Manava Dharmashastra 3.52

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 3.52

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.52)

strīdhanāni tu ye mohād upajīvanti bāndhavāḥ  
nārī yānāni vastraṃ vā te pāpā yānty adhogatim //

> But those (male) relations who, in their folly, live on the separate property of women, (e.g. appropriate) the beasts of burden, carriages, and clothes of women, commit sin and will sink into hell.  
> — 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.3.52) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.52) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.3.20.7) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

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