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 3.270
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
दशमासांस्तु तृप्यन्ति वराहमहिषामिषैः ।
शशकूर्मयोस्तु मांसेन मासानेकादशैव तु ॥ २७० ॥daśamāsāṃstu tṛpyanti varāhamahiṣāmiṣaiḥ |
śaśakūrmayostu māṃsena māsānekādaśaiva tu || 270 ||They are satisfied for ten months by the meat of boars and buffaloes; and for eleven months by the meat of the hare and the tortoise.’—(270)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The ‘boar’ here stands for the wild species.—(270)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Parāśaramādhava (Ācāra, p. 706);—in Hemādri (Śrāddha, p. 586);—and in Gadādharapaddhati (Kāla, p. 536).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 3.269-271)
See Comparative notes for Verse 3.269.