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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 ‘Dharma�, 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...

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

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suvarṇacauraá¸� kaunakhyaá¹� surÄpaá¸� Å›yÄvadantatÄm |
brahmahÄ ká¹£ayarogitvaá¹� dauÅ›carmyaá¹� gurutalpagaá¸� || 49 ||
piÅ›unaá¸� pautinÄsikyaá¹� sÅ«cakaá¸� pÅ«tivaktratÄm |
dhÄnyacauro'á¹…gahÄ«natvamÄtiraikyaá¹� tu miÅ›rakaá¸� || 50 ||
annahartÄ'mayÄvitvaá¹� maukyaá¹� vÄgapahÄrakaá¸� |
vastrÄpahÄrakaá¸� Å›vaitryaá¹� paá¹…gutÄmaÅ›vahÄrakaá¸� || 51 ||
evaá¹� karmaviÅ›eá¹£eṇa jÄyante sadvigarhitÄá¸� |
jaá¸amÅ«kÄndhabadhirÄ viká¹›tÄká¹›tayastathÄ || 52 ||

The stealer of gold has disfigured nails; the drinker of wine, black teeth; the slayer of a µþ°ùÄå³ó³¾²¹á¹‡a, consumption; and the violator of his preceptor’s bed, a disfigured skin;â€�(49) the informer, a foul-smelling nose; the false caluminator, a foul-smelling mouth; the stealer of grains, a deficiency of limbs; and the adulterator, an excess of limbs;â€�(50) the stealer of food, dyspepsia; the stealer of words, dumbness; the stealer of clothes, leucoderma; and the stealer of horse, lameness.â€�(51) It is thus that idiots, the dumb, the blind, the deaf and deformed men, despised by righteous men, are born, on account of particular acts.â€�(52)

 

MedhÄtithi’s commentary (manubhÄá¹£ya):

(verses 11.49-52)

By killing a µþ°ùÄå³ó³¾²¹á¹‡a one becomes affected by consumption—a very serious disease known among physicians by that name.

One who has intercourse with his preceptor’s wife suffers from ‘disfigured skin.�

The �informer� has a nose emitting nauseous smell; and �the false caluminator has a foul-smelling mouth.�

“T³ó±ð caluminator also is only an informer.â€�

True; but one of them (the former) assumes other people’s defects, while the other describes only those that really exist;—that is the sole difference between the two.

�Excess of limbs’—more than the natural number.

�Adulterator’—one who mixes commodities with inferior ones resembling it, e.g., saffron with the Kusumbha flower.

�Dyspeptic’—one who cannot digest the food eaten.

�Dumbness’—Incapability of speech; e.g., the idiot, the epileptic and the like.

The rest is well known.

�Deformed.’—Their figure is despicable.

All this is the result of �particular acts.� These acts bring about the said effects instead of making the men sink into hell and suffer after-death tortures; or even for those who, even though they have passed through all these latter, have still some remnant left of the force of their past misdeeds; or for those in whose case the force of their meritorious deeds being greater, the effects of the evil deeds have had no occasion to assert themselves. In all such cases there is a ‘residue� of past acts.�(49-52)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(verse 11.51)

â€�³ÕÄå²µ²¹±è²¹³óÄå°ù²¹°ì²¹á¸�.’—‘Stealer of speechâ€�,â€�i.e., one who learns the Veda by stealthâ€� (GovindarÄja, KullÅ«ka and RÄghavÄnanda);—‘a plagiaristâ€� (NÄrÄyaṇa).

[The additional verse, relating to the ‘stealer of a lampâ€� has been translated by Buhler as part of the text; it has been so accepted by RÄghavÄnanda and RÄmacandra, but not by the other commentators. We have followed the text of MedhÄtithi here; hence from this verse onward our verse-numbering will be one less than that in Buhler], This additional verse is quoted in ³§³¾á¹›t¾±³Ù²¹³Ù³Ù±¹²¹, (p. 248).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 11.48-52)

[See below.�12.53 et seq.]

See Comparative notes for Verse 11.43.

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