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 8.319
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶じ啷嵿い啷� 啶班啷嵿啷佮 啶樴啶� 啶曕啶ぞ啶︵啶︵ 啶灌ぐ啷囙う啷� 啶た啶ㄠ啶︵啶ぞ啶氞啶� 啶 啶啶班お啶距ぎ啷� 啷�
啶� 啶︵ぃ啷嵿ぁ啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶ㄠ 啶ぞ啶粪 啶む啷嵿 啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶苦え啷� 啶膏ぎ啶距す啶班啶む 啷� 啷┼ェ啷� 啷�yastu rajju峁� gha峁璦峁� k奴p膩dd hared bhindy膩cca ya岣� 辫谤补辫腻m |
sa da峁囜笉a峁� pr膩pnuy膩n 尘腻峁峁� tacca tasmin sam膩haret || 319 ||When one steals the rope or the water-pot from the well, or damages a water-drinking establishment, he should be punished with a fine of one 鈥槼灸遽梗a,鈥� and should restore the article to the place.鈥�(319)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
A place where people drink water is called 鈥�辫谤补辫腻,鈥� 鈥�water-drinking establishment,鈥� the place where water is stored after having been drawn from a reservoir.
The exact nature of the substance is not stated鈥攐f what substance the fine of a 鈥�尘腻峁鈥� shall consist. It should he regarded as being copper or silver.
The article鈥攔ope and the rest鈥攈o shall restore 鈥�to the place鈥� and not to the king.鈥�(319)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
鈥�惭腻峁尘鈥欌�斺�極f gold鈥� (Kull奴ka);鈥斺�榯he exact metal has not been mentioned; it has to be determined on the merits of each case, according as the institution damaged happens to he in a desert or in a country with plentiful water-supply and so forth鈥� (Medh膩tithi, whom Buhler has misrepresented).
This verse is quoted in 痴颈惫腻诲补谤补迟苍腻办补谤补 (p. 328), which adds the following notes:鈥擳he meaning is that鈥斺�榯hat鈥�, the damaged article,鈥攊n the shape of the rope or the jar鈥攈e shall restore to the well. The 笔腻谤颈箩补迟补, in view of the later pronoun 鈥�tat鈥� has read 鈥�谤腻箩箩耻驳丑补峁璦尘鈥� and has explained it as a 鈥榗ollective copulative compound鈥�;鈥攁nd in 痴颈惫腻诲补肠颈苍迟腻尘补峁噄 (p. 141), which reads 鈥�谤补箩箩耻驳丑补峁璦尘鈥� and explains it as 鈥榯he rope or the jar鈥�, and explains the rule as that 鈥榦ne who steals the rope or the jar should replace it, and he who damages the drinking-booth should be fined a 惭腻峁.鈥�