Manusmriti 4.184
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.184
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.184
ākāśeśās tu vijñeyā bālavṛddhakṛśāturāḥ
bhrātā jyeṣṭhaḥ samaḥ pitrā bhāryā putraḥ svakā tanuḥ //
Infants, aged, poor and sick men must be considered as rulers of the middle sphere, the eldest brother as equal to one's father, one's wife and one's son as one's own body,
Translations (1)
- The Laws of Manu — Georg Bühler 1886, English
Commentaries (6)
- Manubhāṣya — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- Manvarthamuktāvalī — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Manvarthacandrikā — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Mānavāryabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Nārāyaṇa — Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Manvāśrayānusāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
Discussed in (3)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Social and Rural Economy of Northern India, cir. 600 B.C.–200 A.D. — Bose 1942, English
- Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 — Sharma 1958, English