The library of Manu

1. Veda 8 authority 8 citations

   Manusmṛti

   chapter 1 · chapter 2 · chapter 4 · chapter 5 · chapter 6 · chapter 9 · chapter 10 · chapter 12

   8 citations

   Whatever Dharma for any person has been declared by Manu, all that is set forth in the Veda, for the Veda is the embodiment of all knowledge.

2. Manu 6 authority 6 citations

   Manusmṛti

   chapter 3 · chapter 4 · chapter 8 · chapter 9 · chapter 10

   6 citations

   What is given by force, enjoyed by force, and also what is written by force—all things done by force, Manu has declared to be undone.

3. Rigveda 1 neutral 1 citation

   Manusmṛti

   chapter 4

   1 citation

   When the sound of the Samaveda is heard, one should never study the Rigveda or the Yajurveda;

4. Samaveda 1 neutral 1 citation

   Manusmṛti

   chapter 4

   1 citation

   When the sound of the Samaveda is heard, one should never study the Rigveda or the Yajurveda;

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Manusmṛti

Svayambhuva Manu · Vedanta ¶ · Agastya · Atharva-Angirasas texts · Atri ¶ · Bhṛgu ¶ · Chandrayana penance tradition · Doctrine of the four expedients (upāya: conciliation, gift, dissension, force) · Doctrine of the six political expedients (ṣāḍguṇya) · Kushmanda texts · Maṇḍala theory of interstate relations · Mānava Śāstra · Prajāpati ¶ · Precedent of Daksha Prajāpati · Puranas and Khilas · Sacred treatises (śāstra) on government and policy · Shaunaka · Smrti (sacred treatises on Dharma) · Smṛti ¶ · Smṛtis outside the Veda / bad doctrines · Subrahmanya litanies · The twelve sons declared by Svayambhuva Manu · Upanishads ¶ · Vaikhanasa tradition · Vasiṣṭha ¶ · Veda (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda / Śruti) · Veda (triple Veda) · Vedic revelation (regarding spoils of war) · Yajurveda ¶ · narrative of Ajigarta and his son · narrative of Bharadvāja · narrative of Vamadeva · narrative of Viśvāmitra · rationalistic treatises (hetu-shastra / nastika schools) · sacred texts on marriage law · sacred treatises · the Self-existent One (Brahma) · the Wind · the son of Utathya · the wise / the learned (sages generally) · Śruti ¶ · Śruti (Veda) · Śruti and Smārta traditions · Śruti and Smṛti ¶ · Ṛc (Ṛgvedic verse beginning 'ud')

13 works in the library quote Manu — 66 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Manu 64 citations · Manusmṛti 2 citations

Aufrecht (ed.) 21 citations · Mitra Miśra 9 citations · Henry Sumner Maine 7 citations · Bṛhaspati 6 citations · Manu 6 citations · Aṅgirasa 4 citations · Parāśara 4 citations · Kātyāyana 3 citations · Anonymous (Vedic) 2 citations · Vālmīki 2 citations · Nārada 1 citation · Ṣimānanda 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Manu is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 21 authority 21 citations · 55 passages

   maṇḍala 1 13 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 2 2 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 3 6 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 4 3 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 6 6 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 7 2 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 8 11 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 10 12 passages anchored here

   Manu is cited repeatedly as the founding lawgiver whose establishment of the hotar-office and descent legitimizes the ritual.

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

2. Vīramitrodaya Mitra Miśra 9 authority 9 citations · 38 passages

   chapter 1 38 passages anchored here

   Manu is named and quoted with explicit verse numbers as the governing smṛti authority on this topic.

   This is a regulated option, because Manu himself has prescribed the study for four and a half months:

3. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 4 authority · 2 neutral 6 citations · 11 passages

   ch. 3 3 passages anchored here · ch. 4 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 4 passages anchored here · ch. 7 · ch. 12

   The most extensively cited law-book, treated as the principal authority discussed at length.

   ’ At the same time the abstract doctrine of punishments or penal sanctions found in Manu (vii.

4. Bṛhaspati Smṛti Bṛhaspati 5 authority · 1 refuted 6 citations · 9 passages

   chapter 1 9 passages anchored here

   Manu is explicitly named as an authority whose treatise should be followed.

   The treatises of Manu and others should be followed, but never the treatise on polity alone;

5. Manusmṛti Manu 6 authority 6 citations · 11 passages

   chapter 3 · chapter 4 · chapter 8 6 passages anchored here · chapter 9 · chapter 10 2 passages anchored here

   Manu is named explicitly in the third person as the source of these specific doctrinal declarations, functioning as a self-referential citation of authority.

   Whatever merit has been declared by Manu for each of these marriages, hear it all, O sages, as I declare it all to you.

6. Āṅgirasa Smṛti Aṅgirasa 4 authority 4 citations · 6 passages

   chapter 1 6 passages anchored here

   Manu is explicitly named as the source of the stated opinion, invoked as legitimating authority.

   Having previously examined the scriptures rooted in the *Śruti* (श्रुति), Manu and the other great-souled ones declared that sesame seeds are of such a nature.

7. Parāśara Smṛti Parāśara 4 authority 4 citations · 12 passages

   chapter 1 2 passages anchored here · chapter 4 · chapter 6 · chapter 7 2 passages anchored here · chapter 9 2 passages anchored here · chapter 11 · chapter 12 3 passages anchored here

   Manu's dharma text is directly named and treated as a recognized authority in p-c79a0e and p-121575.

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

8. Kātyāyana Smṛti Kātyāyana 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

   chapter 33 · chapter 52 · chapter 66 · chapter 68

   Manu is explicitly named as the authority for the maxim about not abandoning the accused, invoked to legitimate the surrounding rule.

   Manu says one should not abandon an accused person.

9. Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 2 authority 2 citations

   kanda 3 · kanda 4

   The passage explicitly credits the rite's institution to Manu as its authoritative source.

   thus was it made by Manu.

10. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

    kanda 2 · kanda 7 3 passages anchored here

    Rāma explicitly traces the ownership of the land to a grant by the ancient lawgiver Manu, invoking his authority as the source of the kingdom's legitimacy.

    Rāma pointed out to Vaidehī that prosperous land, encircled by the kingdom, which was once granted to Ikṣvāku by King Manu in the days of old.

11. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

    ch. 11

    The Manu text is cited by chapter and verse as an authoritative ancient legal source.

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

12. Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana Ṣimānanda 1 authority 1 citation · 11 passages

    ch. 25 11 passages anchored here

    Quoted by explicit verse-number citation (Manu 1.8, 1.9-11, 1.10, 1.16) as scriptural authority for the cosmogonic account.

    From it, then, the individual subtle bodies—the limiting adjuncts of individual souls, being portions of it—are divided off, like a son's subtle body from a father's subtle body.

13. Nāradasmṛti Nārada 1 authority 1 citation · 7 passages

    chapter 1 7 passages anchored here

    Manu is cited repeatedly by name as the originating authority for specific legal rulings on theft and punishment, functioning as an authoritative textual/doctrinal source

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