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 9.159-160
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶呧啶班じ啶� 啶曕啶粪啶む啶班啶多啶氞啶� 啶︵い啷嵿い啶� 啶曕啶む啶班た啶� 啶忇さ 啶� 啷�
啶椸啶⑧啶む啶え啷嵿え啷嬥そ啶さ啶苦う啷嵿ぇ啶多啶� 啶︵ぞ啶ぞ啶︵ぞ 啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶оさ啶距ざ啷嵿 啶粪啷� 啷� 啷оカ啷� 啷�
啶曕ぞ啶ㄠ啶ㄠざ啷嵿 啶膏す啷嬥あ啶多啶� 啶曕啶班啶む 啶啶ㄠぐ啷嵿き啶掂じ啷嵿い啶ムぞ 啷�
啶膏啶掂く啶ㄠ啶︵い啷嵿い啶多啶� 啶多啶︵啶班ざ啷嵿 啶粪ぁ啶︵ぞ啶ぞ啶︵が啶距え啷嵿ぇ啶掂ぞ啶� 啷� 啷оガ啷� 啷�aurasa岣� k峁traja艣caiva datta岣� k峁泃rima eva ca |
g奴岣峢otpanno'paviddha艣ca d膩y膩d膩 b膩ndhav膩艣ca 峁峁� || 159 ||
k膩n墨na艣ca saho岣峢a艣ca kr墨ta岣� paunarbhavastath膩 |
svayandatta艣ca 艣audra艣ca 峁岣嵅够迥宀饽寤宀共宀曰宄蟛贡鼓遽弗 || 160 ||(1) The 鈥�Aurasa,鈥� 鈥楤ody-born,鈥� (2) the 鈥�碍峁迟谤补箩补,鈥� 鈥楽oil-born,鈥� (3) the 鈥�Datta,鈥� 鈥榞iven鈥� (adopted), (4) the 鈥�碍峁泃谤颈尘补,鈥� 鈥榓ppointed,鈥� (5) the 鈥�骋奴岣峢辞迟辫补苍苍补,鈥� 鈥楽ecretly born,鈥� and (6) the 鈥�Apaviddha,鈥� 鈥楥ast off,鈥欌�攖hese six are both heirs and kinsmen.鈥�(159)
(1) The 鈥�碍腻苍墨苍补,鈥� 鈥榤aiden-born,鈥� (2) the 鈥�厂补丑辞岣峢补,鈥� 鈥榬eceived along with the wife,鈥� (3) the 鈥�碍谤墨迟补,鈥� 鈥榖ought,鈥� (4) the 鈥�Paunarbhava鈥� 鈥榖egotten on a remarried woman,鈥� (5) the 鈥�Svayandatta,鈥� 鈥榮elf-offered鈥� and (6) the 鈥�艢补耻诲谤补,鈥� 鈥�艢奴诲谤补-born,鈥欌�攖hese six are only kinsmen, not heirs.鈥�(160)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
(verses 9.159-160)
Those two verses enumerate the twelve kinds of sons, for the purpose of indicating the two classes mentioned above.鈥�(159-160)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
(verse 9.159)
This verse is quoted in 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补, (Pr膩ya艣citta, p. 37);鈥攊n 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (Vyavah膩ra, p. 349), where it is added that though the sons have been divided into these two sets, yet the duty that devolves upon them, as 鈥�蝉补辫颈峁囜笉补蝉鈥� or 鈥�sagotras,鈥� devolves equally on all the twelve,鈥攕uch as the offering of water and so forth;鈥攁nd as for inheriting the father鈥檚 property, the latter set also are entitled to it, in the absence of the former set
It is quoted in 痴颈惫腻诲补谤补迟苍腻办补谤补, (p. 549);鈥攁nd in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻, (2.132), which has the following notes:鈥擳he implication of this is that, in the case of the death also of the 厂补辫颈峁囜笉补 or the 厂补尘腻苍补诲补办补 of the father, the property goes to the first set of six sons and not to the second; though the duty of offering water and so forth devolves equally upon both sets. The 叠腻濒补尘产丑补峁弓墨 adds that from the last remark it follows that the compound 鈥�补诲腻测腻诲补产腻苍诲丑补惫腻岣�鈥� is to be expounded as 鈥�补诲腻测腻诲补鈥� (non-inheritors) + 产腻苍诲丑补惫补 (谤别濒补迟颈辞苍蝉),鈥� i.e., though they don鈥檛 inherit the property, they make the offerings required of the 厂补辫颈峁囜笉补 or Sagotra.
This is quoted in 痴颈惫腻诲补肠颈苍迟腻尘补峁噄, (Calcutta, p. 147);鈥攁nd in the 顿补迟迟补办补肠补苍诲谤颈办腻, (p. 61).
(verse 9.160)
This verse is quoted along with the last, in 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补 (Pr膩ya艣acitta, p. 37);鈥攊n 笔补谤腻艣补谤补尘腻诲丑补惫补, (Vyavah膩ra, p. 349);鈥攊n 痴颈惫腻诲补谤补迟苍腻办补谤补, p. 549);鈥攁nd in 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻, (2.132).
The latter half of this is quoted in 痴墨谤补尘颈迟谤辞诲补测补, (Sa峁僺k膩ra, p. 211) which has the following notes:鈥擳his justifies the view that the 鈥樑毑钩芑灏光�� also is a 鈥榮econdary son鈥�; but it adds that this can be understood only in the sense that the son begotten by a 艢奴诲谤补 on a slave girl (not married) is to be regarded as a 鈥榮econdary son鈥� only in the absence of a 鈥榩rimary son.鈥�
The verse is quoted in Vyavah膩ra-叠腻濒补尘产丑补峁弓墨, (p. 666 and 687);鈥攊n 痴颈惫腻诲补肠颈苍迟腻尘补峁噄 (Calcutta, p. 147);鈥攁nd in 顿补迟迟腻办补肠补苍诲谤颈办腻, (p. 61).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 9.158-160)
See Comparative notes for Verse 9.158.