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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 30.38

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 30.38

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [30.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.30.38)

yat purāṇetihāsavedāṅgadharmaśāstrāṇy adhīte tenāsyānnena ||

> He who studies the Purânas, Itihâsas, Vedângas, and the Institutes of Sacred Law, feeds them with rice.  
> — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.30.38) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Keśavavaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita, Sanskrit
- [Vaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita-alias-vinayakapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita alias Vināyakapaṇḍita, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c6.s10.14) — P. V. Kane, English

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