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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.99

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.99

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.99)

nāvispaṣṭam adhīyīta na śūdrajanasannidhau  
na niśānte pariśrānto brahmādhītya punaḥ svapet //

> Let him not recite (the texts) indistinctly, nor in the presence of Sudras; nor let him, if in the latter part of the night he is tired with reciting the Veda, go again to sleep.  
> — 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.4.99) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.99) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

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