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 12.27
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶むい啷嵿ぐ 啶い啷� 啶啶班啶むた啶膏啶啶曕啶む 啶曕た啶� 啶氞た啶︵ぞ啶む啶え啶� 啶侧啷嵿し啶啶む 啷�
啶啶班ざ啶距え啷嵿い啶た啶� 啶多啶︵啶оぞ啶 啶膏い啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶� 啶むう啷佮お啶оぞ啶班く啷囙い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠキ 啷�tatra yat pr墨tisa峁儁ukta峁� ki峁� cid膩tmani lak峁yet |
pra艣膩ntamiva 艣uddh膩bha峁� sattva峁� tadupadh膩rayet || 27 ||Whenever one perceives in himself something full of bliss, calm and pure,鈥攈e should know it to be 鈥楽attva.鈥欌��(27)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
鈥�Full of bliss鈥欌�攁 feeling of happiness.
鈥�艢耻诲诲丑腻产丑补尘鈥欌�攖hat which appears pure, not tainted by 鈥楻ajas鈥� and 鈥楾amas,鈥� and hence free from passions, vanity, love, hatred, covetousness, delusion, fear, grief and jealousy. This condition is one that should be realised by the man himself, at some time or the other.鈥�(27)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in 础辫补谤腻谤办补 (p. 999), which has the following notes:鈥斺��笔谤墨迟颈鈥� is sukha, happiness; what brings about this happiness is 鈥�辫谤墨迟颈蝉补峁儁耻办迟补尘鈥�;鈥�艣耻诲诲丑腻产丑补尘, the source of faultless knowledge,鈥攖his is 鈥�Sattva.鈥�
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 12.27-29)
惭补丑腻产丑腻谤补迟补 (12.194.31-33;鈥�219.29-31).鈥�(Same as Manu.)