Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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1.114. The laws concerning women, (the law) of hermits, (the manner of gaining) final emancipation and (of)
renouncing the world, the whole duty of a king and the manner of deciding lawsuits,
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1.115. The rules for the examination of witnesses, the laws concerning husband and wife, the law of
(inheritance and) division, (the law concerning) gambling and the removal of (men nocuous like) thorns,
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1.116. (The law concerning) the behaviour of Vaisyas and Sudras, the origin of the mixed castes, the law for all
castes in times of distress and the law of penances,
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1.117. The threefold course of transmigrations, the result of (good or bad) actions, (the manner of attaining)
supreme bliss and the examination of the good and bad qualities of actions,
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1.118. The primeval laws of countries, of castes (gati), of families, and the rules concerning heretics and
companies (of traders and the like)- (all that) Manu has declared in these Institutes.
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1.119. As Manu, in reply to my questions, formerly promulgated these Institutes, even so learn ye also the
(whole work) from me.