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 11.220
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ぅ啶� 啶曕ぅ啶� 啶氞た啶む 啶た啶｀啶∴ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶むた啶膏啶班啶洁ざ啷�啶む啶� 啶膏ぎ啶距す啶苦い啶� 啷�
啶ぞ啶膏啶ㄠぞ啶多啶ㄠえ啷� 啶灌さ啶苦し啷嵿く啶膏啶� 啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶膏啶啶むた 啶膏げ啷嬥啶むぞ啶 啷� 啷ㄠエ啷� 啷�yath膩 katha峁� cit pi峁囜笉膩n膩峁� tisro'艣墨t墨岣� sam膩hita岣� |
m膩sen膩艣nan havi峁asya candrasyaiti salokat膩m || 220 ||If a man, with concentrated mind, somehow eats thrice eighty morsels of 鈥榮acrificial food,鈥� during a month, he attains the regions of the Moon.鈥�(220)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
On one day he takes four morsels, on another twelve, on a third day he does not eat at all, on some day sixteen and so forth; this is what is meant by doing it 鈥�somehow鈥� during the thirty days. The only restriction is that during the month, 鈥�thrice eighty鈥� morsels should be eaten; i.e., two hundred and forty.
By doing this the man reaches the regions of the Moon.鈥�(220)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (3.325);鈥攊苍 笔谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补惫颈惫别办补 (p. 517);鈥攁nd in 贬别尘腻诲谤颈 (K膩la, p. 23), which says that it is the 鈥�厂腻惫补苍补鈥� month that is meant here.
Comparative notes by various authors
叠补耻诲丑腻测补苍补 (3.8.31).鈥斺�楬e who studies this becomes the companion of the lunar constellations, of sun and moon, and dwells in the regions of these.鈥�
Do. (4.5.20).鈥斺�楢 Br膩hma峁嘺 who eats anyhow, during a month, thrice-eighty mouthfuls of sacrificial food, goes to the regions of the Moon.鈥�
Gautama (27.16-18).鈥斺�楬e who has completed the 颁腻苍诲谤补测腻峁嘺, becomes free from sin and free from crime, and destroys all guilt. He who has completed a second month in the same manner, sanctifies himself, his ten ancestors and ten descendants, as well as any company to which he may be invited; and he who has lived a year in that manner dwells, after death, in the regions of the Moon.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (47.9).鈥斺�楨ating anyhow three hundred, minus sixty, mouthfuls a month, is the penance called 厂腻尘腻苍测补 - 颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺.
驰腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (3.324, 326).鈥斺�業f, anyhow, one eats two hundred and forty morsels during one month, this would be another kind of 颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺. One who performs the 颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺 for the sake of spiritual merit (and not as an expiatory penance), obtains the regions of the Moon.鈥�