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# Manava Dharmashastra 5.38

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 5.38

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.5.38)

yāvanti paśuromāṇi tāvatkṛtvo ha māraṇam  
vṛthāpaśughnaḥ prāpnoti pretya janmani janmani //

> As many hairs as the slain beast has, so often indeed will he who killed it without a (lawful) reason suffer a violent death in future births.  
> — 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.5.38) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.5.38) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka.9.38) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda.31.38) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-manuvakyalankarini) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Mānavāryabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!manavaryabhasya) — Sanskrit
- [Manvāśrayānusāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-bhatta) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.51.60) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit
- [Indische Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.indische-spruche.5490) — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit
- [The Religions of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hopkins-1895.c17.44) — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English

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