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 4.83
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶曕啶多啷嵿ぐ啶灌ぞ啶ㄠ 啶啶班す啶距ぐ啶距啶多啶� 啶多た啶班じ啷嵿く啷囙い啶距え啷� 啶掂た啶掂ぐ啷嵿啶啶む 啷�
啶多た啶班啶膏啶ㄠぞ啶むざ啷嵿 啶む啶侧啶� 啶ㄠぞ啶權啶椸 啶曕た啶� 啶氞た啶︵お啶� 啶膏啶啶多啶む 啷� 啷ォ 啷�ke艣agrah膩n prah膩r膩峁兣沜a 艣irasyet膩n vivarjayet |
艣ira岣n膩ta艣ca tailena n膩峁単a峁� ki峁� cidapi 蝉辫峁浥沞迟 || 83 ||Catching of the hair, as also striking on the head,鈥攖hese he shall avoid; having his head bathed, he shall touch no limb with oil.鈥�(83)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
Some people hold that this refers to one鈥檚 own head, as well as to the head of other persons; while others connect this with the term, 鈥榟is own,鈥� of the preceding verse.
What is forbidden here is the hair-catching, etc., done in anger; for there is 鈥榟air-catching鈥� also during sexual intercourse, and this is not forbidden.
The compound 鈥�艣颈谤补岣�-蝉苍腻迟补鈥� is to be expounded as鈥�艣ira岣� sn膩tam anena,鈥� he whose head has been bathed, the order of the term being in accordance with the rule governing such compounds as, by appearance, belong to the 鈥�搁腻箩补诲补苍迟补鈥� group (P膩峁噄ni 2.2.31).
鈥�He shall not touch any limb鈥欌�攐f his own.鈥�(83)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
鈥�Tailena鈥欌�擳his, is construed by almost all the commentators with 鈥�蝉辫峁浥沞迟鈥�, 鈥榦ne should not touch with oil any limb after having bathed his head鈥�; by others with 鈥�艢颈谤补岣苍腻迟补岣�鈥�, 鈥榦ne who has anointed his head with oil shall no峁� touch any limb鈥�.
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 183), which construes the second line to mean 鈥榟aving anointed his head with oil, he shall not rub that same oil over any other limb, or he shall not, during the rest of that day, rub his body with any oil at all鈥�.
Comparative notes by various authors
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (64.12).鈥斺�楬e shall not touch the oiled limb.鈥�