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 12.75
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
啶むぞ啶た啶膏啶班ぞ啶︵た啶粪 啶氞啶椸啶班啶粪 啶ㄠぐ啶曕啶粪 啶掂た啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶ㄠぎ啷� 啷�
啶呧じ啶苦お啶む啶班さ啶ㄠぞ啶︵啶ㄠた 啶え啷嵿ぇ啶ㄠ啷囙う啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠた 啶� 啷� 啷カ 啷�t膩misr膩di峁 cogre峁 narake峁 vivartanam |
asipatravan膩d墨ni bandhanachedan膩ni ca || 75 ||(They also suffer) being tossed about in the 罢腻尘颈蝉谤补 and other dreadful hells, and being bound and mangled in the 鈥榝orest with sword-leaved trees鈥� and other places.鈥�(75)
Medh膩tithi鈥檚 commentary (manubh膩峁a):
The 鈥�罢腻尘颈蝉谤补,鈥� the 鈥�础峁囜笉丑补迟腻尘颈蝉谤补鈥� and other hells have been enumerated above (under 4.80).
鈥�Being tossed about in this鈥欌�攍ying on one side and turning on the other and so forth.
Being bound up to the sword-like leaves of trees; or being 鈥榤angled鈥� by these same leaves lying scattered on the ground鈥攖he limbs being cut about like a piece of plantain-stalk.鈥�(75).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 12.75-76)
驰腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 (3.206).鈥斺�楬aving passed through most despised hells, by virtue of their grievous sins, and thus having their had Karma exhausted, those who had committed heinous offences become born again in the world.鈥�