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 11.31
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啷� 啶掂啶︵く啷囙い 啶曕た啶炧啶氞た啶︵ 啶班ぞ啶溹え啶� 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啶掂た啶む 啷�
啶膏啶掂さ啷�啶班啶啶｀啶� 啶むぞ啶傕ざ啶苦し啷嵿く啶距え啷� 啶ぞ啶ㄠさ啶距え啶啶距ぐ啶苦ぃ啶� 啷� 啷┼ェ 啷�na br膩hma峁噊 vedayeta ki帽cid r膩jani dharmavit |
svav墨rye峁嘺iva t膩峁兣沬峁膩n m膩nav膩napak膩ri峁嘺岣� || 31 ||The 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 conversant with the Law shall not complain to the King; by his own power alone he shall punish the men that injure him.鈥�(31)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
What the verse means is that when the occasion for it arises there is nothing wrong in the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 having recourse to malevolent rites; it does not actually enjoin these rites; nor does it actually forbid the act of complaining to the King; all that is meant is that if there has been occasion for it, and the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 does have recourse to the malevolent rites, the King shall not interfere with him. This is what is going to be declared later on: 鈥楾he 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is the creator, the punisher, etc, etc.鈥攈ence no one should say anything unpleasant to him鈥� (Verse 35),鈥攚here it is understood that the King shall not tell him anything.
鈥�Shall punish 鈥欌赌� Though there is this injunction, yet, as a rule, the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 should complain to the King; because the sentence 鈥�he shall not complain to the King鈥� is not a prohibition, as is clear from the consideration of the concluding verse.
The occasions referred to here have been already enumerated鈥斺�業f one molests his wife鈥� and so forth. In the case of slight offences, he shall complain to the King鈥斺�榯his man has done this to me.鈥�
鈥�Conversant with the Law鈥欌赌�i.e., knowing the procedure of the malevolent rites.
鈥�By his own power鈥欌赌攂y means of incantations and curses; that these are meant being clearly indicated by the next verse.鈥�(31)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This and the following verses rescind the rules given above 鈥�(9.290).鈥浓赌擝耻丑濒别谤.
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.31-35)
[See 9.290 above; and texts thereunder; also 9.313-321.]
惭补丑腻产丑腻谤补迟补 (12.165.18-2).鈥�(Same as Manu.)
痴补艣颈峁ａ弓丑补 (26.16).鈥斺�楾he K峁triya shall get over misfortunes that may have befallen him by the strength of his arms; the Vai艣ya and the 艢奴dra by their wealth; and the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 by muttered payer and oblations into fire.鈥�