Manu

Let Varuṇa, Mitra, and Aryaman — devourers of the wicked — take their seats on our sacred grass, as befits Manu's descendants.

You, O Agni, are the hotar established by Manu;

You are the hotar established by Manu.

To determine the duties of him and of the others in due order, the wise Svayambhuva Manu composed this *shastra*.

Just as Manu, when asked by me in former times, declared this *shastra*, so you too should now learn it from my presence.

The great sages, approaching Manu who was seated with a concentrated mind, duly honored him according to custom and spoke these words:

A divine rite and an ancestral rite should be performed on it, said Manu.

> Harshness, falsehood, and also slander of every kind, and incoherent speech, are the four kinds belonging to speech.

(*) The ten sins are stated by Manu as follows:

This hereditary affliction of the field belongs to the mole, and to Manu, and to the human.

that which of thine is ordained by Manu for well-being and bliss, that we implore.

the Waters are the refiners of all — those which the gods gave to Manu.

The oldest of them was said to have been dictated by Manu, a divine being who had been mysteriously associated with the creation of all things;

The duty of adopting the ascetic life, and the rules for following it, referred to in all the law tracts, are discussed at much length by Manu in the sixth chapter.

It does not seem to me possible to doubt that the account which Sir William Jones gave of the Book of Manu in his Preface to his translation was a rationalised version of the statements made to him by his native teachers, who seem all to have belonged to one particular school of Hindu learning, accustomed to hold Manu in especial honour.

this is the opinion of Manu.

Hārīta says that one should perform only the Sodakumbha *śrāddha* after an oil-massage bath, but Manu says not with this.

Thus says Manu.

In each of four Brahminical law-tracts of great authority, the Vyavahara Mayukha, the Daya-Bhaga, the Mitakshara, and the Daya-Krama-Sangraha, the same ancient text is quoted (sometimes but not always attributed to Manu), which is to the effect that ‘If there be no male issue the nearest kinsman inherits;

’ Among the methods of enforcing payment of a debt described in the collection of rules attributed to the semi-divine legislator, Manu (viii.

) These words, attributed, you see, to the mythical legislator, Manu, have excited the most vehement controversies among later Brahminical commentators, and have caused considerable perplexity to Anglo-Indian Judges, bound as they are to elicit consistent doctrine from the Hindoo legal texts.

What is made for the establishment of the custom of corporations, guilds, and the like, is called a document of convention by those who know the Smṛtis of Manu and others.

If the defendant, admitting the matter stated by the plaintiff, then states a reason, Manu has called this an affirmative defense.

Though stated by Manu, *niyoga* was forbidden by him himself.

Manu says one should not abandon an accused person.

A woman with a son who abandons her capable son—Manu says that by taking her personal property, the paternal debt should be cleared there.

The followers of Manu say that thieves caught with the stolen goods should be banished immediately.

I have heard the *dharmas* of Manu, as well as those of Vasiṣṭha and Kāśyapa.

In the Kṛta *yuga*, the *dharmas* are those of Manu;

thus has Manu declared.

That city was well protected by that lord of the Ikṣvāku line, even as it had been in former times by the wise Manu, the lord of men.

There stood a city famous throughout the world, called Ayodhyā — a city that Manu himself, the lord of men, had personally founded.

Just as the great and resplendent Manu was the protector of all beings, so King Daśaratha, dwelling there, protected the entire world.

Born by the higher law, when he came into being together with those who grow together — when Agni was the father of Kaśyapa, Faith was the mother, Manu the sage.

Sacrifice for the people of the perfect rite, the people born of Manu, those who sprinkle ghee.

Or when the lord of the clan, sharp and well-pleased, guards the tribe of Manu — then Agni of all things repels the demons.

It is consistent with human nature and with the special motives of their authors, that codes like that of Menu should pretend to the highest antiquity and claim to have emanated in their complete form from the Deity-Menu, according to Hindoo mythology, is an emanation from the supreme God;

] "Having placed the subtle parts of these six [organs] of immeasurable power into [his own] self-portions, he fashioned all beings.

" And it is stated by Manu too [1.

[Manu 1.

Manu Svāyaṃbhuva declared ten places of punishment, which should apply to the three classes;

This threefold punishment for crimes of violence (`sāhaseṣu` (साहसेषु)) was declared by the Self-existent One.

A perpetrator of violence, who has abandoned his own self, should not be released by the king because of friendship or a large monetary gain, said Manu.

Manu, Atri, Viṣṇu, Hārīta, Yājñavalkya, Uśanas, Aṅgiras, Yama, Āpastamba, Saṃvarta, Kātyāyana, and Bṛhaspati, // Yj_1.