Manava Dharmashastra 8.304
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 8.304
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- Sanskrit
8.304
sarvato dharmaṣaḍbhāgo rājño bhavati rakṣataḥ
adharmād api ṣaḍbhāgo bhavaty asya hy arakṣataḥ //
A king who (duly) protects (his subjects) receives from each and all the sixth part of their spiritual merit; if he does not protect them, the sixth part of their demerit also (will fall on him).
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 (6)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Indische Sprüche — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit
- Bhagavantabhāskara — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita 1625, Sanskrit
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature — Har Dayal, English
- The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic — E. W. Hopkins, 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