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 2.57
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶呧え啶距ぐ啷嬥啷嵿く啶え啶距く啷佮し啷嵿く啶じ啷嵿さ啶班啶椸啶 啶氞ぞ啶むた啶啶溹え啶 啷�
啶呧お啷佮ぃ啷嵿く啶� 啶侧啶曕さ啶苦う啷嵿さ啶苦し啷嵿啶� 啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶距い啷� 啶むい啷� 啶ぐ啶苦さ啶班啶溹く啷囙い啷� 啷� 啷キ 啷�an膩rogyaman膩yu峁amasvargya峁� c膩tibhojanam |
apu峁噛a峁� lokavidvi峁ａ弓a峁� tasm膩t tat parivarjayet || 57 ||Over-eating destroys health, cuts off life and bars heaven; it is unrighteous and detested by people; for these reasons one should avoid it.鈥�(57)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
The present verse proceeds to show that the prohibition of over-eating is based upon ordinary worldly considerations.
鈥�Destroys health,鈥欌�攊s productive of such diseases as fever, pain in the stomach and so forth.
鈥�Cuts off life,鈥欌�攄estroys life, bringing on such diseases as cholera and the like.
鈥�Bars heaven,鈥欌�攂ecause implying the neglect of one鈥檚 body, it involves the transgressing of such scriptural injunctions as 鈥榦ne should guard himself against all things.鈥� The 鈥榖arring of heaven鈥� means going to hell.
鈥�Unrighteous鈥欌�攑roductive of misfortune.
鈥�Detested by people鈥�;鈥攖he man who eats too much is always looked down upon as a 鈥榞lutton.鈥�
For these reasons one 鈥�should avoid,鈥� 鈥� i.e., not do鈥攐ver-eating.鈥�(57)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补 (Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 488); in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 156);鈥攁nd in 厂尘峁泃颈肠补苍诲谤颈办腻 (Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 115).
Comparative notes by various authors
(Verse 56-57)
See Comparative notes for Verse 2.56.