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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.198

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.198

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.198](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.198)

striyāṃ tu yad bhaved vittaṃ pitrā dattaṃ kathaṃ cana  
brāhmaṇī tad dharet kanyā tadapatyasya vā bhavet //

> Whatever property may have been given by her father to a wife (who has co-wives of different castes), that the daughter (of the) Brahmani (wife) shall take, or that (daughter's) issue.  
> — 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.9.198) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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