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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.84

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.84

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.84)

na rājñaḥ pratigṛhṇīyād arājanyaprasūtitaḥ  
sūnācakradhvajavatāṃ veśenaiva ca jīvatām //

> Let him not accept presents from a king who is not descended from the Kshatriya race, nor from butchers, oil-manufacturers, and publicans, nor from those who subsist by the gain of prostitutes.  
> — 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.4.84) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.84) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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