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 5.160
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠ啶啶む啶え啷嵿え啶� 啶啶班啶距そ啶膏啶む啶� 啶� 啶氞ぞ啶啶え啷嵿く啶ぐ啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶灌 啷�
啶� 啶︵啶掂た啶む啶ざ啷嵿 啶膏ぞ啶о啶掂啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶曕啶� 啶氞た啶︵ 啶ぐ啷嵿い啷嬥お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷� 啷оガ啷� 啷�n膩nyotpann膩 praj膩'st墨ha na c膩pyanyaparigrahe |
na dvit墨ya艣ca s膩dhv墨n膩峁� kva cid bhartopadi艣yate || 160 ||What is born of another is not a 鈥榗hild鈥�: nor is one begotten on another man鈥檚 wife; for good women a second husband is nowhere ordained.鈥�(160).
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
The child that is born for her from another man is not her 鈥榗hild鈥�; similarly what is begotten by a man on another man鈥檚 wife is not his child.鈥�(160)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
(Verse 162 of others.)
鈥�狈补辫谤补箩腻鈥欌�斺�業s not her offspring at all鈥� (Medh膩tithi, N膩r膩ya峁嘺 and Nandana);鈥斺�榠s not her lawful child鈥� (Kull奴ka and Govindar膩ja).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 5.154-163)
See Comparative notes for Verse 5.154.