Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi
by Ganganatha Jha | 1920 | 1,381,940 words | ISBN-10: 8120811550 | ISBN-13: 9788120811553
This is the English translation of the Manusmriti, which is a collection of Sanskrit verses dealing with 鈥楧harma鈥�, a collective name for human purpose, their duties and the law. Various topics will be dealt with, but this volume of the series includes 12 discourses (adhyaya). The commentary on this text by Medhatithi elaborately explains various t...
Verse 10.109
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶啶班い啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶灌ぞ啶︵ 啶ぞ啶溹え啶距う啷� 啶掂ぞ 啶むぅ啷堗さ啶距ぇ啷嵿く啶距お啶ㄠぞ啶︵お啶� 啷�
啶啶班い啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶灌 啶啶班い啷嵿く啶掂ぐ啶� 啶啶班啶む啶� 啶掂た啶啶班じ啷嵿く 啶椸ぐ啷嵿す啶苦い啶� 啷� 啷оウ啷� 啷�pratigrah膩d y膩jan膩d v膩 tathaiv膩dhy膩pan膩dapi |
pratigraha岣� pratyavara岣� pretya viprasya garhita岣� || 109 ||Among Receiving of Gifts, Sacrificing and Teaching, the Receiving of Gifts is the meanest, and the most reprehensible for the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, in respect of his life after death.鈥�(109)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
The sense of the verse is that so long as the less reprehensible means of subsistence, in the shape of sacrificing and teaching, are available, the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 should not have recourse to the receiving of Improper Gifts.鈥�(109)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 935).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 10.109-111)
痴补艣颈峁ａ弓丑补 (20.45-47).鈥斺�楶roperty received from outcasts, after forming alliances with them, either by teaching the Veda or by marriage, must he relinquished. Let him not associate with such men. It is declared in the Veda that he who has associated with an outcast becomes pure by reciting the Sa峁僪it膩 of his Veda, proceeding in the northerly direction, and fasting. They quote also a verse to the effect that a sinner is liberated from guilt by tormenting his body, by austerities, and by reciting the Veda; be becomes free also by bestowing gifts.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (54.28).鈥斺�楾hose 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺s who have acquired property by base acts become free from sin by relinquishing it and by reciting Veda-texts and practising austerities.鈥�
膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补 (1.28, 11-12).鈥斺�楨njoyments taken unrighteously one shall give up; be shall say鈥斺�淚 and sin do not dwell together.鈥� Clothing himself with a garment reaching from the navel down to the knee, bathing daily, morn, noon and evening, eating food which contains neither milk nor pungent condiments, nor salt, he shall not enter a house for twelve years. After that, he may be taken as purified.鈥�
[See 11.194.]