Manusmriti [sanskrit]
by Ganganatha Jha | 1920 | 23,875 words | ISBN-10: 8120811550 | ISBN-13: 9788120811553
This is the Sanskrit text of the Manusmriti, which is a collection of verses dealing with ‘Dharma-Shastra’—the ancient Indian science of Law, Spritual life, Politics and Ethics.. The edition of this text is based on Ganganatha Jha’s translation of the same text.
Verse 8.123
कौटसाक्ष्यं तु कुर्वाणांस्त्रीन्वर्णान्धार्मिको नृपः ।
प्रवासयेद्दण्डयित्वा ब्राह्मणं तु विवासयेत् ॥ १२३ ॥
kauṭasākṣyaṃ tu kurvāṇāṃstrīnvarṇāndhārmiko nṛpaḥ |
pravāsayeddaṇḍayitvā brāhmaṇaṃ tu vivāsayet || 123 ||
The Sanskrit text of Verse 8.123 is contained in the book Manusmrti (Sanskrit and English) by Ganganath Jha. This book is available online or you could buy the latest edition:
Read online Buy now! The Sanskrit text by Ganganath Jha (1999)
Glossary of Sanskrit terms
Note: This extracts Sanskrit terms and links to English definitions from the glossary, based on an experimental segmentation of verse (8.123). Some terms could be superfluous while some might not be mentioned. Click on the word to show English definitions.
Kautasakshya, Kurvana, Tri, Varna, Dharmika, Nripa, Brahmana, Viva,
Analysis of Sanskrit grammar
Note: this is an experimental feature and only shows the first possible analysis of the Sanskrit text (Verse 8.123). If the system was successful in segmenting the sentence, you will see of which words it is made up of, generally consisting of Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Participles and Indeclinables. Click on the link to show all possible derivations of the word.
- Line 1: “kauṭasākṣyaṃ tu kurvāṇāṃstrīnvarṇāndhārmiko nṛpaḥ ”
- kauṭasākṣyam -
-
kauṭasākṣya (noun, neuter)[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]
- tu -
-
tu (indeclinable particle)[indeclinable particle]
- kurvāṇāṃs -
-
kurvāṇa (noun, masculine)[accusative plural]√kṛ -> kurvāṇa (participle, masculine)[accusative plural from √kṛ class 8 verb]
- trīn -
-
tri (noun, masculine)[accusative plural]
- varṇān -
-
varṇa (noun, masculine)[accusative plural]
- dhārmiko* -
-
dhārmika (noun, masculine)[nominative single]
- nṛpaḥ -
-
nṛpa (noun, masculine)[nominative single]
- Line 2: “pravāsayeddaṇḍayitvā brāhmaṇaṃ tu vivāsayet ”
- Cannot analyse pravāsayeddaṇḍayitvā*br
- brāhmaṇam -
-
brāhmaṇa (noun, masculine)[adverb], [accusative single]brāhmaṇa (noun, neuter)[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]brāhmaṇā (noun, feminine)[adverb]
- tu -
-
tu (indeclinable particle)[indeclinable particle]
- vivā -
-
viva (noun, masculine)[compound], [vocative single]viva (noun, neuter)[compound], [vocative single]vivā (noun, feminine)[nominative single]
- āsayet -
-
√ās (verb class 0)[optative active third single]√as (verb class 0)[optative active third single]