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# Vyasasmriti 4.30

Vyāsasmṛti 4.30

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vyasa.4.30)

pituḥ śataguṇaṃ dānaṃ sahasraṃ māturucyate  
bhaginyāṃ śatasāhasraṃ sodare dattamakṣayam

> A gift to one's father is said to be hundredfold, to one's mother thousandfold; / to a sister a hundred-thousandfold, and what is given to a brother of the same womb is imperishable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.30.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vyasa.4.30.p1)

indukṣayaḥ pitā jñeyo mātā caiva dinakṣayaḥ  
saṃkrāntirbhaginī caiva vyatīpātaḥ sahodaraḥ

> A father should be known as the new-moon day, and a mother as the twilight \[at day's end\]; / a sister is a solar ingress (saṅkrānti), and a brother of the same womb is a vyatīpāta.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vyasa~en-mt.4.30) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Vedavyāsasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vedavyasasmrti.207) — Sanskrit
- [Smṛtīnāṃ Samuccayaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.smrtisamuccaya.117.31) — Sanskrit

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