Manusmriti 8.152
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 8.152
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.152
kṛtānusārād adhikā vyatiriktā na sidhyati
kusīdapatham āhus taṃ pañcakaṃ śatam arhati //
Stipulated interest beyond the legal rate, being against (the law), cannot be recovered; they call that a usurious way (of lending); (the lender) is (in no case) entitled to (more than) five in the hundred.
Translations (1)
- The Laws of Manu — Georg Bühler 1886, English
Commentaries (7)
- Manuṭīkā — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manvāśrayānusāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Manubhāṣya — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- Manvarthamuktāvalī — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Manvarthacandrikā — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Mānavāryabhāṣya — Sanskrit
Linked texts (5)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — R. C. Majumdar & A. D. Pusalker, English
- The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India — E. J. Rapson, English
- Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) — Julius Jolly & Batakrishna Ghosh, English
- Vyavahāramālā — Varadarāja (grammarian) 1700, Sanskrit