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Manu (Shed bu)

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• As name of the most ancient king, his name is given as Gshed can, or alternatively Gshed bu, in Lde'u 197. Shed bu is of course the more orthodox spelling.
• Davidson, IEB, pp. 52, 62, 103, 129, 178.
• Tucci, TPS, pp. 89, 327 (Indian artist).
• See David Weldon and Jane Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet, Laurence King (London 1999), p. 55 (Indian artist who made the stūpa for the remains of Atiśa.
• One of a set of eight cosmogonic female figures. She gave birth to the humans. Nakamura, Upanisadic">Nakamura, Upanisadic, p. 100.
• Patrick Olivelle, Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra, Oxford University Press (New Delhi 2006), in 1132 pages.
• Arthur Coke Burnell & E.W. Hopkins, The Ordinances of Manu, Munshiram (New Delhi 1995), in 448 pages. English translation from the Sanskrit.
• The Māṇavagṛhya Sūtra was edited by F. Knauer (Saint Petersburg 1897(, and subject of a German study by P. von Bradke, Über das Māṇava-gṛhya-sūtra, Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, vol. 36 (1882).

• Source: Tibskrit Philology