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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.205

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.205

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.205](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.205)

avidyānāṃ tu sarveṣāṃ īhātaś ced dhanaṃ bhavet  
samas tatra vibhāgaḥ syād apitrya iti dhāraṇā //

> But if all of them, being unlearned, acquire property by their labour, the division of that shall be equal, (as it is) not property acquired by the father; that is a settled rule.  
> — 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.9.205) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Bhagavantabhāskara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.bhagavantabhaskara.52.p59) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita 1625, Sanskrit
- [Madanaratna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaratna.5.p39) — Madanasiṃha, Sanskrit

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