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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.178

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.178

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.178)

yaṃ brāhmaṇas tu śūdrāyāṃ kāmād utpādayet sutam  
sa pārayann eva śavas tasmāt pāraśavaḥ smṛtaḥ //

> The son whom a Brahmana begets through lust on a Sudra female is, (though) alive (parayan), a corpse (sava), and hence called a Parasava (a living corpse).  
> — 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.9.178) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- [Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-manuvakyalankarini) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Mānavāryabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!manavaryabhasya) — Sanskrit
- [Manvāśrayānusāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-bhatta) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (10)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.12.375.9_4080) — Sanskrit
- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c19.282) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c12.303) — R. S. Sharma, English
- [Vyavahāraprakāśa (Mitramiśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.vyavaharaprakasa.8.p945) — Mitramiśra 1753, Sanskrit
- [Vivādaratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.vivada.vivadaratnakara.31.p17) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit
- [Ratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mithila.ratnakara.31.p17) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiratnākara (Vivādaratnākara, Kṛtyaratnākara…)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiratnakara.29.p14) — Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura, Sanskrit
- [Vīrasiṃhamitrodaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.virasimhamitrodaya.3.p536) — Rāmamiśra, Sanskrit
- [Dayabhaga-jimutavahana-paribhadriya (ed. Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācārya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.daya.dayabhaga-jimutavahana-paribhadriya*bhattacarya1893.17.170) — Sanskrit
- [Dāyabhāga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.dayabhaga.7.178) — Jīmūtavāhana, Sanskrit

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