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...

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

तेन यद् यत् सभृत्येन कर्तव्यं रक्षता प्रजाः ।
तत् तद् वोऽहं प्रवक्ष्यामि यथावदनुपूर्वशः ॥ ३६ ॥

tena yad yat sabhṛtyena kartavyaṃ rakṣatā prajāḥ |
tat tad vo'haṃ pravakṣyāmi yathāvadanupūrvaśaḥ || 36 ||

Whatever should be done by him and his servants, for the protecting of his people, all that I am going to explain to you precisely and in due order—(36)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

This verse is indicative of what is going to be expounded.

By the King and his ‘servants’—i.e., his assistants—whatever has to be done for the protection of his people, that is now going to be described.—(36).

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