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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.8

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.8)

patir bhāryāṃ saṃpraviśya garbho bhūtveha jāyate  
jāyāyās tad dhi jāyātvaṃ yad asyāṃ jāyate punaḥ //

> The husband, after conception by his wife, becomes an embryo and is born again of her; for that is the wifehood of a wife (gaya), that he is born (gayate) again by her.  
> — 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.9.8) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

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