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 11.218
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶呧し啷嵿啶距さ啶粪啶熰 啶膏ぎ啶多啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶む 啶た啶｀啶∴ぞ啶ㄠ 啶ぇ啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶︵た啶ㄠ 啶膏啶ムた啶む 啷�
啶ㄠた啶い啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶� 啶灌さ啶苦し啷嵿く啶距ざ啷� 啶い啶苦啶距え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶距く啶｀ 啶氞ぐ啶ㄠ 啷� 啷ㄠェ啷� 啷�a峁ａ弓膩va峁ａ弓au sama艣n墨y膩t pi峁囜笉膩n madhyandine sthite |
niyat膩tm膩 havi峁膩艣墨 yatic膩ndr膩ya峁嘺峁� caran || 218 ||One who performs the 鈥�驰补迟颈-颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺鈥� shall eat daily at midday eight morsels, controlling himself and eating only 鈥榮acrificial food.鈥欌��(218)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
Everyday he shall eat eight morsels,鈥攂eginning either with the dark or with the bright half of the month.
This is the 鈥�驰补迟颈-颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺.鈥�
鈥�At midday鈥欌�攚hen midday has approached; that is, avoiding the forenoon and the afternoon.
The rest is clear.鈥�(218)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
(verses 11.218-219)
These verses are quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 1243);鈥攊n 惭颈迟腻办峁谤腻 (3.325), which add that in the 驰补迟颈肠腻苍诲谤腻-测补峁嘺 and other penances, it is not necessary to follow the movements of the moon; so that there would be no harm if the beginning were made on even the fifth day of the lunar month, if that happened to be the first day of the solar month;鈥攁nd in 笔谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补惫颈惫别办补 (p. 517).
Comparative notes by various authors
叠补耻诲丑腻测补苍补 (4.5.19).鈥斺�業f, self-restrained, he daily eats, during a month, at mid-day, eight mouthfuls of sacrificial food, he performs the 驰补迟颈-颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺.鈥�
痴颈峁ａ箛耻 (47.7).鈥斺�業f a man eats for a month eight mouthfuls a day, it is the penance called 驰补迟颈-颁腻苍诲谤腻测补峁嘺.鈥�