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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.233

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.233

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.233](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.233)

sarveṣām eva dānānāṃ brahmadānaṃ viśiṣyate  
vāryannagomahīvāsastilakāñcanasarpiṣām //

> The gift of the Veda surpasses all other gifts, water, food, cows, land, clothes, sesamum, gold, and clarified butter.  
> — 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.4.233) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.233) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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