Manusmriti 8.95
Mānava Dharmaśāstra 8.95
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- Sanskrit
8.95
andho matsyān ivāśnāti sa naraḥ kaṇṭakaiḥ saha
yo bhāṣate 'rthavaikalyam apratyakṣaṃ sabhāṃ gataḥ //
'That man who in a court (of justice) gives an untrue account of a transaction (or asserts a fact) of which he was not an eye-witness, resembles a blind man who swallows fish with the bones.
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 (4)
- Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Dharmatattvakalanidhi — Pṛthvīcandra, Sanskrit
- Pṛthvīcandra — Sanskrit