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 5.120
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶曕啶粪啶さ啶む啶多啷嵿啶多啶權啶椸ぞ啶｀ぞ啶じ啷嵿ぅ啶苦う啶ㄠ啶むぎ啶じ啷嵿く 啶� 啷�
啶多啶︵啶оた啶班啶掂た啶溹ぞ啶ㄠい啶� 啶曕ぞ啶班啶ぞ 啶椸啶啶む啶班啶｀啶︵啷囙え 啶掂ぞ 啷� 啷оエ啷� 啷�k峁umavat艣a峁卥ha艣峁涐箙g膩峁嚹乵asthidantamayasya ca |
艣uddhirvij膩nat膩 k膩ry膩 gom奴tre峁嘺udakena v膩 || 120 ||The learned man should purify conch-shells, horn and things mads of bone and tusk, like linen; and by c ow鈥檚 urine or water.鈥�(120).
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
The 鈥榖one鈥�, 鈥榟orn鈥� and 鈥榯usk鈥� meant are those of the touchable animals,鈥攖he cow, the sheep end the elephant,鈥攁nd not of such animals as the dog, the ass and the like.
鈥�Water鈥� and 鈥�cow鈥檚 urine鈥� are optional alternatives; while the use of 鈥榳hite mustard鈥� is to be combined with either of these.鈥�(120).
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
(Verse 121 of others.)
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 260);鈥攊n 狈颈迟测腻肠腻谤补辫谤补诲墨辫补 (p. 99);鈥攊n 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 Pr膩ya艣citta, p. 138);鈥攁nd in 贬别尘腻诲谤颈 (艢r膩ddha, p. 805).
Comparative notes by various authors
(See the texts under 110.)
Gautama (1.30-31).鈥斺�楽tone, jewels, shells and mother-o鈥�-pearl should be scoured;鈥攁rticles of hone and clay should bo planed.
叠补耻诲丑腻测补苍补 (1.8.45-47).鈥斺�楤ones should be cleansed like wood (by planing); conch-shells, horn, pearl-shells and ivory should be cleansed like linen (with paste of yellow mustard).鈥�
痴补艣颈峁ａ弓丑补 (3.50-52).鈥斺�楽tones and gems (like metals) should be scoured with ashes; so also conch-shells and pearl-shells; objects made of hone should he planed.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (23. 23).鈥斺�楾hings made of horns, hone or teeth should be cleansed with sesamum.鈥�
驰腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (1.185).鈥斺�榃ood, horn and bones and things made out of fruits should he scoured with brush made of the hairs of the cow鈥檚 tail.鈥�
Yama (础辫补谤腻谤办补, p. 261).鈥斺�榁essels made of gourd and wood and bamboo-chips, when very much defiled, should????? given up.鈥�
笔补谤腻艣补谤补 (7.28).鈥斺�楾hings made of bamboo, tree-bark, linen and cotton cloth, woolen and jute are purified by sprinkling water.鈥�
础峁単颈谤补蝉 (笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补, p. 138).鈥斺�榃oolen things are purified by air, fire and sun鈥檚 rays; they are not defiled by the touch of semen or of a dead body.鈥�