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 4.221
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶� 啶忇い啷囙そ啶ㄠ啶 啶む啶掂き啷嬥啷嵿く啶距え啷嵿え啶距 啶曕啶班ぎ啶多 啶ぐ啶苦啷�啶班啶むた啶むぞ啶� 啷�
啶む啶粪ぞ啶� 啶む啶掂啶膏啶ムた啶班啶ぞ啶｀た 啶掂う啶ㄠ啶む啶え啷嵿え啶� 啶え啷�啶粪た啶｀ 啷� 啷ㄠエ啷� 啷�ya ete'nye tvabhojy膩nn膩岣� krama艣a岣� parik墨rtit膩岣� |
te峁Ｄ佱箖 tvagasthirom膩峁噄 vadantyanna峁� man墨峁峁嘺岣� || 221 ||The food of those other persons who have been successively mentioned as those whose food should not be eaten,鈥攖he wise men describe as skin, bones and hairs.鈥�(221)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (尘补苍耻产丑腻峁补):
There are other persons who have been mentioned in this section as those whose food should not be eaten; and the food of these men is 鈥�skin, bones and hairs.鈥� That is, the eating of their food is as improper as the eating of their skin, etc.鈥�(221)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补 (膧hnika, p. 507);鈥攁nd in 贬别尘腻诲谤颈 (艢r膩ddha p. 782).