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The Laws of Manu

The Mānava-dharmaśāstra: creation, the duties of the four estates and stages of life, law, penance and rebirth.

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The Laws of Manu, tr. Georg Bühler
Georg Bühler, 1886

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The Laws of Manu, tr. Georg BühlerTranslation · English · Georg Bühler, 1886

Georg Bühler's translation (1886), read from scans of the printed volume. Words in parentheses are his additions, mostly from the commentators. Its rules on caste and on women reflect the society it was written for and are much debated within Hinduism today.

The Laws of Manu, translated by Georg Bühler. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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