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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.162

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.162

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.162)

yady ekarikthinau syātām aurasakṣetrajau sutau  
yasya yat paitṛkaṃ rikthaṃ sa tad gṛhṇīta netaraḥ //

> If the two heirs of one man be a legitimate son of his body and a son begotten on his wife, each (of the two sons), to the exclusion of the other, shall take the estate of his (natural) father.  
> — 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.9.162) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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