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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.97

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.97

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.97)

yathāśāstraṃ tu kṛtvaivam utsargaṃ chandasāṃ bahiḥ  
viramet pakṣiṇīṃ rātriṃ tad evaikam aharniśam //

> Having performed the Utsarga outside (the village), as the Institutes (of the sacred law) prescribe, he shall stop reading during two days and the intervening night, or during that day (of the Utsarga) and (the following) night.  
> — 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.4.97) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.97) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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