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 6.49
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶呧ぇ啷嵿く啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶班い啶苦ぐ啶距じ啷�啶ㄠ 啶ㄠた啶班お啷囙啷嵿し啷� 啶ㄠた啶班ぞ啶た啶粪 啷�
啶嗋い啷嵿ぎ啶ㄠ啶� 啶膏す啶距く啷囙え 啶膏啶栢ぞ啶班啶ム 啶掂た啶氞ぐ啷囙う啶苦す 啷� 啷ク 啷�adhy膩tmaratir膩s墨no nirapek峁 nir腻尘颈峁岣� |
膩tmanaiva sah膩yena sukh膩rth墨 vicarediha || 49 ||Centered in spirituality, disinterested, free from longings, with himself as his sole companion, he shall wander forth in the world, seeking bliss.鈥�(49).
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
鈥�Spirituality鈥欌�� disposition to concentrate one鈥檚 attention upon the quest for the true nature of the self;鈥斺��centered鈥欌�� always thinking of it, he shall remain.
鈥�Disintrested;鈥欌�攖his re-iterates what has been already said before regarding his not caring for the due fulfilment of Dharma and other things.
鈥�狈颈谤腻尘颈峁岣�鈥欌�攆ree from longings. Flesh is 鈥�腻尘颈峁鈥�, which indicates (figuratively) longing, by reason of the fact that living beings have a great liking for flesh; and this longing is forbidden.
All the rest has already been explained before.鈥�(49).
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 954);鈥攁nd in 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (膧ch膩ra, p. 569).
Comparative notes by various authors
惭补丑腻产丑腻谤补迟补 (12.330.30).鈥�(Same as Manu, the last foot being read as 鈥�ya艣caret sa sukh墨 bhavet.鈥�)
膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补 (2.21.13).鈥斺�楢bandoning truth and falsehood, pleasure and pain, the Vedas, this world and the next, he shall seek the 膧tman.鈥�
痴补艣颈峁ａ弓丑补 (10.17, 20).鈥斺�楩reedom from future births is certain for him who constantly dwells in the forest, who has subdued his organs of sensation and action, who has renounced all sensual gratification, whose mind is fixed in meditation on the Supreme Spirit, and who is indifferent (to all things).鈥�