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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 50.48

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 50.48

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [50.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.50.48)

phaladānāṃ tu vṛkṣāṇāṃ chedane japyam ṛkśatam  
gulmavallīlatānāṃ ca puṣpitānāṃ ca vīrudhām //

> For cutting (unawares?) trees yielding fruit (such as the bread-fruit or mango trees), shrubs, creeping or climbing plants, or plants yielding blossoms (such as the jasmine tree), he must mutter a Vedic text (the Gâyatrî) a hundred times.  
> — 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.50.48) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Linked texts (4)

- [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.32.57) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.15.4.37) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.8.2-3) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtimuktāphala](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtimuktaphala.7.3.2) — Vaidyanātha Dīkṣita 1575, Sanskrit

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