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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.217

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.217

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.217](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.217)

mṛṣyanti ye copapatiṃ strījitānāṃ ca sarvaśaḥ  
anirdaśaṃ ca pretānnam atuṣṭikaram eva ca //

> Nor (the food given) by those who knowingly bear with paramours (of their wives), and by those who in all matters are ruled by women, nor food (given by men) whose ten days of impurity on account of a death have not passed, nor that which is unpalatable.  
> — 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.4.217) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.217) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.5.p366) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Daśanirṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.dasanirnaya.10.p107) — Veṅkaṭanātha Vaidikasārvabhauma, Sanskrit
- [Āhnikaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.ahnikaprakasa.11.p98) — Mitramiśra, Sanskrit

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