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# Manava Dharmashastra 5.26

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 5.26

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.5.26)

etad uktaṃ dvijātīnāṃ bhakṣyābhakṣyam aśeṣataḥ  
māṃsasyātaḥ pravakṣyāmi vidhiṃ bhakṣaṇavarjane //

> Thus has the food, allowed and forbidden to twice-born men, been fully described; I will now propound the rules for eating and avoiding meat.  
> — 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.5.26) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.5.26) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.5.p504) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Ācārasāra (Gadādhara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.acarasara-gadadhara.10.p148) — Gadādhara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit

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