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# Manava Dharmashastra 8.11

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 8.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.11)

yasmin deśe niṣīdanti viprā vedavidas trayaḥ  
rājñaś cādhikṛto vidvān brahmaṇas tāṃ sabhāṃ viduḥ //

> Where three Brahmanas versed in the Vedas and the learned (judge) appointed by the king sit down, they call that the court of (four-faced) Brahman.  
> — 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.8.11) — 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 (8)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.91) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v1.c13.s1.19) — B. A. Saletore, English
- [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c10.s5.5) — V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, English
- [Vyavahāraprakāśa (Mitramiśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.vyavaharaprakasa.1.p71) — Mitramiśra 1753, Sanskrit
- [Dharmatattvakalanidhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.dharmatattvakalanidhi.1.p44) — Pṛthvīcandra, Sanskrit
- [Madanaratna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaratna.1.p35) — Madanasiṃha, Sanskrit
- [Pṛthvīcandra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.prthvicandra.1.p46) — Sanskrit
- [Vīrasiṃhamitrodaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.virasimhamitrodaya.1.p17) — Rāmamiśra, Sanskrit

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