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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.43

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.43

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.43)

nāśnīyād bhāryayā sārdhaṃ nainām īkṣeta cāśnatīm  
kṣuvatīṃ jṛmbhamāṇāṃ vā na cāsīnāṃ yathāsukham //

> Let him not eat in the company of his wife, nor look at her, while she eats, sneezes, yawns, or sits at her ease.  
> — 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.4.43) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.43) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.55.49) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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