[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Vaishnava Dharmashastra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu) › 20.47 # Vaishnava Dharmashastra 20.47 Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 20.47 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [20.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20.47) yathā dhenusahasreṣu vatso vindati mātaram tathā pūrvakṛtaṃ karma kartāraṃ vindate dhruvam // > Even as a calf finds his mother among a thousand cows, an act formerly done is sure to find the perpetrator. > — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu - [Previous: 20.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20.46) - [Next: 20.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20.48) - [Up: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20) ## Translations (1) - [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.20.47) — Julius Jolly 1880, English ## Commentaries (2) - [Vaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita-alias-vinayakapandita.23.47) — Nandapaṇḍita alias Vināyakapaṇḍita 1598, Sanskrit - [Keśavavaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c72.187) — P. V. Kane, English - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.2.72.12) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Indische Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.indische-spruche.5114) — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.20.47) · Pramāṇa