Manusmriti 8.385
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 8.385
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.385
agupte kṣatriyāvaiśye śūdrāṃ vā brāhmaṇo vrajan
śatāni pañca daṇḍyaḥ syāt sahasraṃ tv antyajastriyam //
A Brahmana who approaches unguarded females (of the) Kshatriya or Vaisya (castes), or a Sudra female, shall be fined five hundred (panas); but (for intercourse with) a female (of the) lowest (castes), one thousand.
Translations (1)
- The Laws of Manu — Georg Bühler 1886, English
Commentaries (6)
- Mānavāryabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Manubhāṣya — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- Manvarthamuktāvalī — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Manvarthacandrikā — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Nārāyaṇa — Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Manvāśrayānusāriṇī — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 — Sharma 1958, English