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 12.17
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶む啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠ啶啶� 啶むぞ 啶ぞ啶啶� 啶多ぐ啷�啶班啶｀啶� 啶ぞ啶むえ啶距 啷�
啶むぞ啶膏啶掂啶� 啶啶むぎ啶距い啷嵿ぐ啶距じ啷� 啶啶班げ啷�啶え啷嵿い啷� 啶掂た啶ぞ啶椸ざ啶� 啷� 啷оキ 啷�ten膩nubh奴ya t膩 y膩m墨岣� 艣ar墨re峁嘺iha y膩tan膩岣� |
t膩sveva bh奴tam膩tr膩su pral墨yante vibh膩ga艣a岣� || 17 ||After they have suffered, through this body, the torments inflicted by yama, those constituents become dissolved into each of those same material elements.鈥�(17)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
鈥�Yama鈥� is the name of a particular deity, who inflicts punishments upon sinners,鈥攚hich are spoken of here as 鈥�torments.鈥�
After the man has 鈥�experienced鈥� these torments, through the said body of five constituent material substances,鈥攖hose bodies become dissolved into the said subtle particles of those substances.鈥�(17)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
鈥淜ull奴ka and Nandana assume that the subject of both clauses is 鈥�du峁峁泃ino j墨v膩岣�鈥�.鈥擝耻丑濒别谤.
鈥淎ccording to Nandana the meaning of the verse is鈥斺�楾he individual souls, having suffered by means of that body the torments of Yama, are dissolved, on the termination of those sufferings in those very five elements according to the proportion of their works鈥�.鈥濃�擝uhler.