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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.234

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.234

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.234](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.234)

yena yena tu bhāvena yad yad dānaṃ prayacchati  
tat tat tenaiva bhāvena prāpnoti pratipūjitaḥ //

> For whatever purpose (a man) bestows any gift, for that same purpose he receives (in his next birth) with due honour its (reward).  
> — 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.4.234) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.234) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka.7.234) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- [Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-manuvakyalankarini) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Mānavāryabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!manavaryabhasya) — Sanskrit
- [Manvāśrayānusāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-bhatta) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Studies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hazra-1940.c12.36) — R. C. Hazra, English

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