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 4.53
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ㄠぞ啶椸啶ㄠた啶� 啶啶栢啶ㄠ啶ぇ啶啶ㄠ啶ㄠ啷嵿え啶距 啶ㄠ啶曕啶粪啶� 啶� 啶膏啶む啶班た啶ぎ啷� 啷�
啶ㄠぞ啶啶о啶 啶啶班啷嵿し啶苦お啷囙う啶椸啶ㄠ 啶� 啶� 啶ぞ啶︵ 啶啶班い啶距お啶啶む 啷� 啷ォ 啷�n膩gni峁� mukhenopadhamennagn膩峁� naik峁ta ca striyam |
n膩medhya峁� prak峁pedagnau na ca p膩dau prat膩payet || 53 ||He shall not blow fire with the mouth; nor shall he look at a naked woman. He shall not throw an unclean thing into fire; nor shall he warm his feet at it.鈥�(53)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
Fire should be blown with deer-skin-fans and such things.
鈥�He shall not look at a naked woman鈥欌赌斺赌榓part from sexual intercourse,鈥� says another Sm峁泃i-text.
鈥�Unclean thing鈥欌赌斺赌�补尘别岣峢测补鈥斺赌�medha鈥� means- sacrifice; 鈥�medhya鈥� is fit for use at sacrifice; and 鈥�amedhya鈥� is unfit for use at sacrifices; such things, for instance, as onions, urine, excreta, and so forth. Anything like this, he shall not throw into fire.
He shall not raise his feet directly towards the fire and warm them at it. There is no objection to the feet being covered and then warmed for the purpose of exciting perspiration.鈥�(53).
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 181);鈥攁nd in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (on 1.137).
Comparative notes by various authors
Gautama (9.33).鈥斺赌楤lowing fire with the mouth, wrangling, obtrusive wearing of garlands and sandal-paste, eating with his wife, looking at the wife applying collyrium to her eyes, entering by the wrong door, eating while seated on the chair, swimming in the river, climbing trees,鈥攖hese he shall avoid.鈥�
膧pastamba Dharmas奴tra (15.20).鈥斺赌楬e shall not blow (the fire, carelessly).鈥�
Do. (30.20).鈥斺赌楬e shall not stretch his legs towards fire, water, Brahma峁嘺s, Deities, wind.鈥�
痴补艣颈峁ａ弓丑补 (12.27).鈥斺赌楬e shall not blow the fire with his mouth.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (72.26.37).鈥斺赌楬e shall not look at the naked woman,鈥攈e shall not throw any unclean object into the fire,鈥攈e shall not warm his feet over the fire.鈥�
Do. (础辫补谤腻谤办补, p. 182).鈥斺赌楤lood or poison he shall not throw into the fire.鈥�
驰腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (1.135).鈥斺赌楬e shall not look at the sun, nor at the naked woman, nor at the woman immediately after intercourse, nor at the urine or at the stool, nor at unclean things, nor at the eclipse or at the stars.鈥�
驰补箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (1.137).鈥斺赌楬e shall not throw into the water spittings or blood, or ordure or urine or semen; he shall not warm his feet over the fire; nor shall he cross over it.鈥�
膧艣val膩yana G峁沨yas奴tra (3.9.6).鈥斺赌楬e shall not bathe at night; he shall not bathe naked; he shall not sleep naked; he shall not look at 峁環e naked woman, except...... he shall not run in the rain.鈥�
Yama (础辫补谤腻谤办补, p. 181).鈥斺赌楾he worshipping tree one shall not cut; nor throw phlegm, semen, poison, urine, ordure, blood, bones, ashes, potsherds, hair or thorns into water.鈥�
碍腻迟测腻测补苍补 (Do.).鈥斺赌楨ither before or after the offering of oblations one shall not blow the fire with the hand, or with the winnowing basket or with the sphya or fans. He shall blow the fire with the mouth alone, as from the mouth was fire born; the prohibition of blowing fire with the mouth is applied to the ordinary (not sacrificial) fire.鈥�
Devala (Do.).鈥斺赌極ne shall not throw fire into the fire, nor quench it with water.鈥�