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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 50.47

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 50.47

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [50.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.50.47)

kiṃcid eva tu viprāya dadyād asthimatāṃ vadhe  
anashthnāṃ caiva hiṃsāyāṃ prāṇāyāmena śudhyati //

> But, if he has killed animals having bones, he must (moreover) give some trifle to a Brâhmana (for each animal which he has killed); if he has killed boneless animals, he becomes purified by one stopping of the breath.  
> — 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.50.47) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Linked texts (3)

- [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.32.56) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.8.1-7) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtimuktāphala](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtimuktaphala.7.3.1) — Vaidyanātha Dīkṣita 1575, Sanskrit

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