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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.87

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.87

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.87)

yas tu tat kārayen mohāt sajātyā sthitayānyayā  
yathā brāhmaṇacāṇḍālaḥ pūrvadṛṣṭas tathaiva saḥ //

> But he who foolishly causes that (duty) to be performed by another, while his wife of equal caste is alive, is declared by the ancients (to be) as (despicable) as a Kandala (sprung from the) Brahmana (caste).  
> — 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.9.87) — 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 (4)

- [The History of Bengal (Vol. I: Hindu Period; Vol. II: Muslim Period 1200–1757)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-sarkar-1943.v1.c18.s3.t2.46) — R. C. Majumdar & Jadunath Sarkar, 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.c12.380) — R. S. Sharma, English
- [The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c12.27) — A. S. Altekar, English
- [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.124) — Julius Jolly & Batakrishna Ghosh, English

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