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 11.184
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ㄠた啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啷囙ぐ啶傕ざ啷嵿 啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶距い啷� 啶む 啶膏ぎ啷嵿き啶距し啶｀じ啶灌ぞ啶膏え啷� 啷�
啶︵ぞ啶ぞ啶︵啶じ啷嵿く 啶啶班う啶距え啶� 啶� 啶ぞ啶む啶班ぞ 啶氞啶� 啶灌た 啶侧啶曕た啶曕 啷� 啷оギ啷� 啷�nivartera峁兣沜a tasm膩t tu sambh膩峁峁嘺sah膩sane |
d膩y膩dyasya prad膩na峁� ca y膩tr膩 caiva hi laukik墨 || 184 ||Thenceforth shall cease all conversation with him, sitting with him, his sharing in property, as also all ordinary intercourse.鈥�(184)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
This verse lays down how his relations shall treat the outcast after the 鈥榳ater鈥� has been offered.
鈥�Conversation鈥欌�擳alking with one another.
鈥�Property鈥欌�擶ealth. This also shall not be given to him.
鈥�Ordinary intercourse鈥欌�擲aluting at meeting and enquiring after health and so forth, bringing him home at marriages and other ceremonies, feeding him, and so forth.
鈥淭he cessation of all this is already implied in that of conversation.鈥�
What is meant by the last phrase includes also the dropping of all such courtesies as rising to receive him, leaving the seat and the likes; while 鈥榗onversation鈥� stands for acts pertaining to the utterance of words only.鈥�(184)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (3.295) to the effect that the outcast should thenceforward be kept outside the pale of conversation, sitting together and other forms of association;鈥攁nd in 狈颈谤峁嘺测补蝉颈苍诲丑耻 (p. 409).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.182-185)
See Comparative notes for Verse 11.182.