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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.110

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.110

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.110)

pratigṛhya dvijo vidvān  
tryahaṃ na kīrtayed brahma rājño rāhoś ca sūtake //

> A learned Brahmana shall not recite the Veda during three days, when he has accepted an invitation to a (funeral rite) in honour of one ancestor (ekoddishta), or when the king has become impure through a birth or death in his family (sutaka), or when Rahu by an eclipse makes the moon impure.  
> — 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.4.110) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.110) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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