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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 ‘Dharma�, 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...

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

वान्तो विरिक्तः स्नात्वा तु घृतप्राशनमाचरेत् �
आचामेदेव भुक्त्वाऽन्न� स्नानं मैथुनिनः स्मृतम� � १४� �

vānto ٲ� snātvā tu ghṛtaprāśanamācaret |
ācāmedeva bhuktvā'nna� snāna� maithunina� smṛtam || 142 ||

Having vomitted or purged, one should bath and then eat clarified butter. After having eaten his food, he should only sip water. For one who has copulated bathing has been ordained.�(142).

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Vomitting� and ‘purging� are well known. The man who throws out the food that he has eaten is said to have �vomitted�. The man the number of whose motions has gone beyond the number eight,� either through disease, or through his having taken Ჹīٲī or some such purgative—is said to have �purged.�

These two persons should first of all bathe.

Then, they should eat clarified butter and then any other kind of food; and the injunction of eating clarified batter is meant to be a prohibition of other kinds of food. Just as in the case of expiatory rites, ashes and water are regarded as means of purification, so in the case in question, is the eating of clarified butter.

After having taken food he should only sip water’� After he has taken his food, if he happen to vomit or purge on the same day, then he should do the sipping of water only, and not. bathing and eating of clarified butter.

Others have taken this independently by itself, to mean that ‘after having taken his food he should sip water this being a reiteration of the water-sipping that has already been prescribed as to be done after meals.

One who has copulated,’�i.e., one who has had sexual intercourse with a woman,—becomes pure by bathing. (142).

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(Verse 144 of others.)

This verse is quoted in 貹첹 (p. 922); and again on (p. 926), where it explains the meaning to be that ‘if one vomits after having eaten food, he must wash�;—in Ѿṣa (on 3.30), which adds, like 貹첹, that the last clause refers to sexual intercourse during the wife’s ‘courses�;—in īٰǻ岹ⲹ (Āhnika, p. 106), which notes that �ٲ�� means ‘one who has abnormal purgings,’Ĕand that the meaning is that ‘if one vomits after he has taken his food, he should only wash, and not bathe�;—and again on p. 199 where the construction of the second half is explained as �bhuktvā annam Գٲ�,� whence the meaning is that on vomitting immediately after food, there should be washing only,—the particle �eva� serving to preclude the bathing which is prescribed in the first half of the verse for one who has ‘vomitted�;—the ‘sexual intercourse,� refers to that during the courses;—in Śܻ󾱰첹ܻܳī (p. 331), which explains �ٲ�� as ‘one who has had many motions,� and adds that if one vomits immediately after taking his food, he is simply to rinse his mouth, and for the man who has had sexual intercourse during the wife’s ‘period,� he is cleansed by bathing;—in ٲ峦ī貹 (p. 334), which says that �Գٲ�� is understood after �bhuktvā annam,� and adds the same notes;—and in (Śrāddha, p. 796).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

Ā貹ٲ (2.1.21-23).—‘During intercourse only they shall he together; afterwards separate; then they shall both bathe.�

վṣṇ (22.67).—‘Bathing is also ordained after sexual intercourse, after bad dreams, also when blood has issued from the throat and after having vomited or been purged,�

ʲś (貹첹, p. 922).—‘After bad dreams and sexual intercourse, or vomiting, or purging, or shaving,... one should bathe.�

ṛh貹پ (Do.).—‘After sexual intercourse, there should be immediate bathing.�

Yama (Do.).—‘When there is indigestion, or purging or vomiting, or sleeping at sunset, after bad dreams, or touching a wicked man, one shall only bathe.�

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