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 11.57
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ㄠた啶曕啶粪啶じ啷嵿く啶距お啶灌ぐ啶｀ 啶ㄠぐ啶距ざ啷嵿さ啶班啶むじ啷嵿く 啶� 啷�
啶啶た啶掂啷嵿ぐ啶ぃ啷�啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶� 啶班啶曕啶じ啷嵿い啷囙く啶膏ぎ啶� 啶膏啶啶むぎ啷� 啷� 啷キ 啷�nik峁pasy膩pahara峁嘺峁� nar膩艣varajatasya ca |
bh奴mivajrama峁嚹玭膩峁� ca rukmasteyasama峁� sm峁泃am || 57 ||Stealing of a deposit, or of men, horse, silver, land, diamonds and other oems,鈥攁ll this has been declared to be equal to the 鈥榮tealing of gold.鈥欌��(57)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
鈥�Deposit鈥欌�攅ven such as consists of not very valuable things.
鈥�Men.鈥欌�擳his term stands for the kind; hence the stealing of women also stands on the same footing. This same sin accrues to him who, after having betrothed his daughter to one man, gives her ultimately to another, even when no defects have been found in the former bridegroom. This is what has been described as the man 鈥榝alling upon a lie.鈥欌��(57)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (3.265), as referring to the stealing of property belonging to the Br膩hmana;鈥攊n 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (Pr膩ya艣citta p. 421);鈥攊n 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 1048);鈥攁nd in 笔谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补惫颈惫别办补 (p. 177 and 344), which has the following note鈥斺�楧eposit鈥�, belonging to the Br膩hma峁嘺.
Comparative notes by various authors
叠补耻诲丑腻测补苍补 (2.2.3-4).鈥斺�楽tealing the property of a Br膩hma峁嘺 or a deposit, giving false evidence regarding land.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (36.3).鈥斺�楢ppropriating to one鈥檚 self land belonging to a Br膩hma峁嘺 or a deposit, are crimes equal to theft of gold.鈥�
驰腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (3.230).鈥斺�楽tealing of a horse, of gems, of human females, of land, and of cows, or of deposit, these are equal to gold-stealing.鈥�