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 ‘Dharma’, 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 3.57
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
शोचन्ति जामयो यत्र विनश्यत्याशु तत् कुलम् ।
न शोचन्ति तु यत्रैता वर्धते तद् हि सर्वदा ॥ ५७ ॥śocanti jāmayo yatra vinaśyatyāśu tat kulam |
na śocanti tu yatraitā vardhate tad hi sarvadā || 57 ||Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers.—(57)
(Note: the above is an alternate translation by George Bühler)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
[Verses 57 to 66 have been omitted by Medhātithi.]
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
Verses 57—66 are omitted by Medhātithi. [Query—are they interpolations?] “These are very probably a later addition. The corresponding section in the Mahābhārata, 13.46 stops right here also.”—Hopkins. They are all quoted in Vivādaratnākara and in Parāśaramādhava.
Vivādaratnākara (p. 417.) explains ‘jāmayaḥ’ as ‘ladies of the family; sisters, daughters-in-law, and so forth’.
Comparative notes by various authors
Mahābhārata (Anuśā. 46.6).—‘Where the ladies are aggrieved, that family becomes doomed.’