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 4.4
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶嬥い啶距ぎ啷冟い啶距き啷嵿く啶距 啶溹啶掂啶む 啶む 啶啶む啶� 啶啶班ぎ啷冟い啷囙え 啶掂ぞ 啷�
啶膏い啷嵿く啶距え啷冟い啶距き啷嵿く啶距ぎ啶た 啶掂ぞ 啶� 啶多啶掂さ啷冟い啷嵿い啷嵿く啶� 啶曕う啶� 啶氞え 啷� 啷� 啷�峁泃膩m峁泃膩bhy膩峁� j墨vet tu m峁泃ena pram峁泃ena v膩 |
saty膩n峁泃膩bhy膩mapi v膩 na 艣vav峁泃ty膩 kad膩 cana || 4 ||He shall live in 鈥淭ruth鈥� and 鈥淣ectar,鈥� or by 鈥淒eath鈥� and 鈥淪uper-death;鈥� or, even by 鈥淭ruth and Falsehood;鈥� but never by the 鈥渓iving of the dog.鈥濃��(4)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
The author now mentions the 鈥渙ccupations鈥� by name; and their mere names imply the excellence of some of them; and from this it follows that one should have recourse to the deprecated ones only when the commended ones are not possible.
Of these, the 鈥淒eath鈥� and the 鈥淪uper-Death鈥� are the most deprecated; and worse than these is the 鈥淭ruth and Falsehood,鈥� as is clear from the fact that the Text says that one may live 鈥�even by these;鈥� where the term 鈥�even鈥� clearly indicates undesirability.鈥�(4)
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 (膧c膩ra, p. 309);鈥攊n 痴颈诲丑腻苍补辫腻谤颈箩腻迟补 (II. p. 246);鈥攁nd the second half in 惭补诲补苍补辫腻谤颈箩腻迟补 (p. 216).
Comparative notes by various authors
础驳苍颈辫耻谤腻峁嘺 (100.5).鈥擺Reproduces Manu.]
碍奴谤尘补辫耻谤腻峁嘺 (1.2.25.22).鈥斺�楾he householder is of two kinds鈥攖he 厂腻诲丑补办补 and the 狈辞苍-蝉腻诲丑补办补; for the former, teaching, officiating at sacrifices, receiving of gifts, gleaning and picking; for the 狈辞苍-蝉腻诲丑补办补 householder, gleaning and picking have been declared to be the only two means of livelihood.鈥�