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# Manava Dharmashastra 7.49

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 7.49

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.7.49)

dvayor apy etayor mūlaṃ yaṃ sarve kavayo viduḥ  
taṃ yatnena jayel lobhaṃ tajjāv etāv ubhau gaṇau //

> That greediness which all wise men declare to be the root even of both these (sets), let him carefully conquer; both sets (of vices) are produced by that.  
> — 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.7.49) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, 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)

- [The History and Culture of the Indian People](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1951-hcip.v4.c100.s62.t3.1) — R. C. Majumdar & A. D. Pusalker, English
- [Akṣayanītisudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.gnomic.niti.aksayanitisudhakara.4.406) — Nagjī Rām Śarmā, Sanskrit
- [Mānavadharmasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.manavadharmasara.p155) — Śivaprasād, Sanskrit

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