Manava Dharmashastra 7.20
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 7.20
- Language
- Sanskrit
7.20
yadi na praṇayed rājā daṇḍaṃ daṇḍyeṣv atandritaḥ
śūle matsyān ivāpakṣyan durbalān balavattarāḥ //
If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit;
Translations (1)
- The Laws of Manu — Georg Bühler 1886, English
Commentaries (7)
- Mānavāryabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Manubhāṣya — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- Manuṭīkā — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manvarthamuktāvalī — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Manvarthacandrikā — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manvāśrayānusāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
Linked texts (10)
- Southern recension — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Geschichte der indischen Litteratur — M. Winternitz, German
- Indische Sprüche — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit
- Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times — K. P. Jayaswal, English
- State and Government in Ancient India — A. S. Altekar, English
- Hindu Administrative Institutions — V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, English
- War in Ancient India — V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, English
- The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics — Benoy Kumar Sarkar, English
- A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. — U. N. Ghoshal, English