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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.15

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.15

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.15)

pauṃścalyāc calacittāc ca ca svabhāvataḥ  
rakṣitā yatnato 'pīha bhartṛṣv etā vikurvate //

> Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully they may be guarded in this (world).  
> — 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.9.15) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Vivādaratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.vivada.vivadaratnakara.18.p111) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiratnākara (Vivādaratnākara, Kṛtyaratnākara…)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiratnakara.17.p170) — Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura, Sanskrit

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