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 10.111
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶溹お啶灌啶啶班お啷囙い啷嵿く啷囙え啷� 啶ぞ啶溹え啶距ぇ啷嵿く啶距お啶ㄠ啶� 啶曕啶むぎ啷� 啷�
啶啶班い啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶灌え啶苦ぎ啶苦い啷嵿い啶� 啶む 啶む啶ぞ啶椸啶� 啶むお啶膏啶� 啶� 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�japahomairapetyeno y膩jan膩dhy膩panai岣� k峁泃am |
pratigrahanimitta峁� tu ty膩gena tapasaiva ca || 111 ||By the muttering of sacred texts and by the offering of libations is the guilt incurred by teaching and sacrificing removed; while that incurred by receiving gifts is removed only by renouncing them and by austerities.鈥�(111)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
鈥�The guilt is removed鈥欌赌攄别蝉迟谤辞测别诲鈥斺赌�by the muttering of sacred texts and by the offering of libations.鈥� Hence there is not much harm in this.
But the guilt incurred in the receiving of gifts is removed only by the 鈥�renouncing鈥欌�� of the gifts鈥攁nd 鈥�by austerities鈥欌�攍aid down later on, under 11.195.鈥�(111)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 936);鈥攊n 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (3.35);鈥攁nd in 笔谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补惫颈惫别办补 (p. 404).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 10.109-111)
See Comparative notes for Verse 10.109.
[See 11.194.]