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# Manava Dharmashastra 4.9

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 4.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.4.9)

ṣaṭkarmaiko bhavaty eṣāṃ tribhir anyaḥ pravartate  
dvābhyām ekaś caturthas tu brahmasattreṇa jīvati //

> One of these follows six occupations, another subsists by three, one by two, but the fourth lives by the Brahmasattra.  
> — 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.4.9) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.4.9) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja.7.p8) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.25.15) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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