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 11.217
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶忇い啶啶� 啶掂た啶оた啶� 啶曕啶む啶膏啶ㄠぎ啶距啶班啶︵ 啶さ啶ぇ啷嵿く啶 啷�
啶多啶曕啶侧お啶曕啶粪ぞ啶︵た啶ㄠた啶い啶多啶氞ぐ啶傕ざ啷嵿啶距え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶距く啶｀ 啶掂啶班い啶 啷� 啷ㄠェ啷� 啷�etameva vidhi峁� k峁泃snam膩cared yavamadhyame |
艣uklapak峁Ｄ乨iniyata艣cara峁兣沜膩ndr膩ya峁嘺峁� vratam || 217 ||This same method shall be adopted in the 鈥榊avamadhyama鈥� penance, but beginning it in the bright half of the month; and it is with a controlled mind that one should perform the 鈥�颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺鈥� penance.鈥�(217)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
In the 鈥�Yavamadhyama鈥� the man shall fast on the New-moon day and then take one morsel on the first (of the bright half), two on the second, and so on, till fifteen are taken on the Full-moon day; then beginning with the first of the dark half of the month, he shall reduce it by one morsel daily, till there is fasting again on the New-moon day.鈥�(217)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (Pr膩ya艣citta, p. 241), which notes that this is the 鈥楤arley-shaped鈥� 颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺 as distinguished from the 鈥榓nt-shaped鈥� one described in the preceding verse. [When the penance begins on the first day of the brighter fortnight it is called 鈥楤arley-shaped鈥�, and when begun on the first day of the bright fortnight, it is called 鈥楢nt-shaped鈥�. In verse 216, 础辫补谤腻谤办补 and 惭补诲补苍补辫腻谤颈箩腻迟补 read 艣ukle k峁涐梗峁噀, ma king the beginning in the brighter fortnight];鈥攁nd in 笔谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补惫颈惫别办补 (p. 516).