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 2.135
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啶� 啶︵ざ啶掂ぐ啷嵿し啶� 啶む 啶多い啶掂ぐ啷嵿し啶� 啶む 啶啶た啶ぎ啷� 啷�
啶た啶むぞ啶啶む啶班 啶掂た啶溹ぞ啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶︵ 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啶膏啶む 啶むく啷嬥 啶た啶むぞ 啷� 啷оォ啷� 啷�br膩hma峁嘺峁� da艣avar峁峁� tu 艣atavar峁峁� tu bh奴mipam |
pit膩putrau vij膩n墨y膩d br膩hma峁嘺stu tayo岣� pit膩 || 135 ||The 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 or ten years and the 碍峁迟谤颈测补 or a hundred years should be known as father and son; and of the two this 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is the father.鈥�(135)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
One since whose birth ten years have elapsed is 鈥榦f ten years.鈥� The time is the determining and the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 the determined factor; but it is not possible to determine, by means of time, either his tallness or shortness or thinness, etc.; what can be determined by it is only a certain act of his; and this act can only be that of maintaining his life-breath, which subsists in him continuously since his birth.
The same explanation applies to the epithet 鈥�of a hundred years.鈥�
They should be looked upon as 鈥榝ather and son.鈥�
鈥�Of the two鈥欌�攁s compared with each other,鈥斺�� the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is the father.鈥�
All that this means is that even when the 碍峁迟谤颈测补 is very old and the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 very young in years, the former should rise to meet and salute the latter.鈥�(135)
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. 474), as showing that the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is 鈥榮uperior鈥� to all.
It quotes the same verse as contained in 叠丑补惫颈峁补辫耻谤腻峁嘺.鈥�. It is quoted also in 狈峁泂颈峁僪补辫谤补蝉腻诲补 (Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 44b);鈥攁nd in 厂尘峁泃颈肠补苍诲谤颈办腻 (Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 101) to the effect that as between a 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 and a 碍峁迟谤颈测补, the former is to be saluted by the latter, even though he be very much junior in age.
Comparative notes by various authors
膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-顿丑补谤尘补蝉奴迟谤补 (1.14.25)鈥�(a paraphrase of Manu).
痴颈峁ａ箛耻-厂尘峁泃颈 (32.17)鈥�(reproduces the exact words of Manu).
叠丑补惫颈峁补-辫耻谤腻峁嘺 (痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补-Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 474)鈥�(has the verse of Manu, to which it adds another verse to the effect that)鈥斺�榯he 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 has thus been declared by the wise the 碍峁迟谤颈测补鈥檚 father, the Vai艣ya鈥檚 grand-father and the 艢奴dra鈥檚 great-grand-father.鈥�
艢腻迟腻迟补辫补 (痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补-Sa峁僺k膩ra, pp. 473-474).鈥斺�楢gni is the superior of the Twice-born men, the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is the superior of all castes.鈥�
艢腻迟腻迟补辫补 (Par膩艣aram膩岣峢ava, p. 299).鈥斺�楾he 碍峁迟谤颈测补 and the rest should never be saluted by the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, even though they be endowed with knowledge and of good conduct and very learned.鈥�
惭补丑腻产丑腻谤补迟补 (13.8.21).鈥斺�楾he 碍峁迟谤颈测补, hundred years old and the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, ten years old, should he regarded as father and son; of the two, the 叠谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 being the superior.鈥�