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# The Law Code of Devala 3.4: Kṛtyakalpataru · Gṛhastharatnākara

Devalasmṛti (fragments) 3.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.3.4)

suptān mattāc ca kanyāyā harati vyasanād api | pramādahetuḥ paiśāco vivāho 'ṣṭama ucyate

> How should their bathing, how their cleansing, how their penance be? / What conduct should they adopt? Tell us that in full detail.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> When one carries off a maiden asleep or intoxicated, or in distress, that marriage by negligence is called the eighth, the Paiśāca.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (2)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments~en-mt.3.4) — English, machine translation
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala~en-mt.3) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.3.p159) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Gṛhastharatnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.grhastharatnakara.5.p65) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit

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