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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.208

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.208

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.208](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.208)

anupaghnan pitṛdravyaṃ śrameṇa yad upārjitam  
svayam īhitalabdhaṃ tan nākāmo dātum arhati //

> What one (brother) may acquire by his labour without using the patrimony, that acquisition, (made solely) by his own effort, he shall not share unless by his own will (with his brothers).  
> — 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.9.208) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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