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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.121

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.121

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.121)

upasarjanaṃ pradhānasya dharmato nopapadyate  
pitā pradhānaṃ prajane tasmād dharmeṇa taṃ bhajet //

> The representative (the son begotten on the wife) is not invested with the right of the principal (the eldest brother to an additional share); the principal (became) a father on the procreation (of a son by his younger brother); hence one should give a share to the (son begotten on the wife of the elder brother) according to the rule (stated above).  
> — 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.9.121) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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