Verse 8.248

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

तडागान्युदपानानि वाप्यः प्रस्रवणानि च ।
सीमासन्धिषु कार्याणि देवतायतनानि च ॥ २४८ ॥

taḍāgānyudapānāni vāpyaḥ prasravaṇāni ca |
sīmāsandhiṣu kāryāṇi devatāyatanāni ca || 248 ||

Tanks, water-reservoirs, ponds and fountains should be built on boundary-links; as also temples.—(248)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Tanks’—large reservoirs of water.

‘Ponds’—pools.

‘Water-reservoir’—wells and the like.

‘Fountains’— plots of ground from which small quantities of water trickle out.

‘Temples’—houses for the worshipping of Yakṣas and other demi-gods.

All these are such marks as are publicly visible; and cannot be easily obliterated; specially as the destroying of these entails a great sin; and further, since all men desiring to fetch water, and to visit the deity in the temple, are constantly on the spot, the boundary-line becomes well known to witnesses.—(248)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 202), which adds the following notes:—‘Taḍāga’, large water-reservoirs,—‘vāpī’, smaller tanks,—‘udapāna’ wells,—‘prasravaṇa’, water-streams other than rivers.

It is quoted in Mitākṣarā (2.151), where Bālambhaṭṭī adds the following notes:—‘Udapāna’, well,—‘vāpī’, long ponds with stone-walls,—‘prasravaṇa’, springs and in Vivādacintāmaṇi (p. 93).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 8.245-251)

See Comparative notes for Verse 8.245.