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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 30.45

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 30.45

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [30.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.30.45)

kāmān mātā pitā cainaṃ yad utpādayato mithaḥ  
saṃbhūtiṃ tasya tāṃ vidyād yad yonāv iha jāyate //

> Let him consider as a merely human existence that which he owes to his father and mother uniting from carnal desire and to his being born from his mother's womb.  
> — 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.30.45) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Linked texts (1)

- [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.147) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit

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