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 2.82
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶啶洁ぇ啷�啶む啶洁す啶ㄠ啶す啶ㄠ啶啶むぞ啶� 啶む啶班啶｀た 啶掂ぐ啷嵿し啶距ぃ啷嵿く啶むえ啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶苦い啶� 啷�
啶� 啶啶班す啷嵿ぎ 啶ぐ啶き啷嵿く啷囙い啶� 啶掂ぞ啶啶啶む 啶栢ぎ啷傕ぐ啷嵿い啶苦ぎ啶距え啷� 啷� 啷エ 啷�yo'dh墨te'hanyahanyet膩峁� tr墨峁噄 var峁Ｄ佱箛yatandrita岣� |
sa brahma paramabhyeti v膩yubh奴ta岣� kham奴rtim膩n || 82 ||He who, untired, recites this, day after day, for three years, turns into air, and becoming transfigured into 膧办腻艣补, reaches the supreme brahman.鈥�(82)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
He becomes omnipresent, all-pervading, like 膧办腻艣补.
鈥�Transfigured into 膧办腻艣补鈥欌�攎eans that he acquires the nature of 膧办腻艣补. 鈥�惭奴谤迟颈,鈥� 鈥楩igure,鈥� does not stand here for the Body; as 膧办腻艣补 has no 鈥榖ody鈥� at all.
鈥淲hat is this 鈥�Brahman鈥� into whose form the man is said to become merged?鈥�
It is the Supreme Soul, of the nature of Bliss; He of whom all these embodied souls are mere inodes, just as waves are of the ocean perturbed by the force of wind. And just as when the ocean becomes calm, the waves become merged into it, in the same manner the embodied souls become transformed and merged into the Supreme Soul. All this is going to be described in detail in Discourse 12.
What is enjoined in the present context is the mere reciting and study of the 骋腻测补迟谤墨 verse, not its Japa, repetition; this is shown by the fact that the number of repetitions is not stated.
鈥�Untired鈥�;鈥攖his denotes that the recitation is to be carried out again and again; as a single recitation can never tire a person.
What is enjoined here pertains to persons seeking for Final Release.鈥�(82)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补 (膧岣ika, p. 321), which supplies the following explanatory notes:鈥�
鈥�痴腻测耻产丑奴迟补岣�鈥欌�攁s quick- moving as the wind, or 鈥榚ncased in the Subtle Body鈥欌�攁s explained in Kalpataru;鈥斺赌�碍丑补尘奴谤迟颈尘腻苍鈥欌�攂ecoming as all-pervading as the 膧办腻艣补, becomes the Supreme Self.,
It is quoted also in 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (膧c膩ra, p. 286) as eulogising the japa of the 骋腻测补迟谤墨 mantra;鈥攁nd in 厂补峁僺办腻谤补谤补迟苍补尘腻濒腻 (p. 236).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 81-82)
See Comparative notes for Verse 2.81.