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 9.103
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एष स्त्रीपुंसयोरुक्तो धर्मो वो रतिसंहितः ।
आपद्यपत्यप्राप्तिश्च दायधर्मं निबोधत ॥ १०३ ॥eṣa strīpuṃsayorukto dharmo vo ratisaṃhitaḥ |
āpadyapatyaprāptiśca dāyadharmaṃ nibodhata || 103 ||Thus has been expounded to you the law relating to husband and wife, which is conducive to conjugal happiness,—as also the manner of obtaining children in times of distress; learn now the partition of inheritance.—(103)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This verse shows the connection between what has gone before and what is coming next.
The two subjects—of the Duties of Husband and Wife, and the Begetting of Children—having been dealt with, it is the fit occasion for taking up the subject of the Partition of Inheritance.—(103)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted by Jīmūtavāhana (Dāyabhāga, p. 6).