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 8.223
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶ぐ啷囙ぃ 啶む 啶︵ざ啶距す啶膏啶� 啶� 啶︵う啷嵿く啶距え啷嵿え啶距お啶� 啶︵ぞ啶く啷囙い啷� 啷�
啶嗋う啶︵ぞ啶ㄠ 啶︵う啶む 啶氞啶� 啶班ぞ啶溹啶炧ぞ 啶︵ぃ啷嵿ぁ啷嵿く啷� 啶多い啶距え啶� 啶粪啷� 啷� 啷ㄠエ啷� 啷�pare峁嘺 tu da艣膩hasya na dady膩nn膩pi d膩payet |
膩dad膩no dadat caiva r膩j帽膩 da峁囜笉yau 艣at膩ni 峁峁� || 223 ||But after ten days, he shall neither return nor take it back; he who takes it back, as well as he who returns it, should be fined by the king six hundred.鈥�(223)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
After ten days there can be no 鈥榬escission of the sale.鈥�
If the buyer does repent of the transaction and applies to the king for its rescission, be should be fined six hundred 鈥榟e shall not return it.鈥欌�擳his prohibition is not put forth with a view to any transcendental result; all that is meant is that such is the established rule,鈥攖hat after ten days the buyer should not be forced, against his wish, to give up the article, nor should the seller he forced to take it back. So that there is nothing wrong if the returning and taking back are done amicably by mutual understanding.鈥�(223)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (2.258);鈥攊苍 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 831);鈥攁nd in 痴颈惫腻诲补谤补迟苍腻办补谤补 (p. 199), which adds that the fine meant is 100 辫补峁嘺蝉;鈥攊苍 痴颈惫腻诲补肠颈苍迟腻尘补峁噄 (p. 88);鈥攁nd in 碍峁泃测补办补濒辫补迟补谤耻 (108b).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 8.222-223)
See Comparative notes for Verse 8.222.