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# Manava Dharmashastra 7.50

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 7.50

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.7.50)

pānam akṣāḥ striyaś caiva mṛgayā ca yathākramam  
etat kaṣṭatamaṃ vidyāc catuṣkaṃ kāmaje gaṇe //

> Drinking, dice, women, and hunting, these four (which have been enumerated) in succession, he must know to be the most pernicious in the set that springs from love of pleasure.  
> — 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.7.50) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka.13.50) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, 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 (5)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.114) — P. V. Kane, English
- [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c8.60) — E. W. Hopkins, English
- [Rājadharmakaustubha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.rajadharma.rajadharmakaustubha.41.20) — Anantadeva 1645, Sanskrit
- [The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.hopkins-1889.c2.s4.t1.19) — E. W. Hopkins, English
- [Akṣayanītisudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.gnomic.niti.aksayanitisudhakara.4.407) — Nagjī Rām Śarmā, Sanskrit

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