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 11.29
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
विश्वैश्च देवैः साध्यैश्च ब्राह्मणैश्च महर्षिभिः ।
आपत्सु मरणाद् भीतैर्विधेः प्रतिनिधिः कृतः ॥ २९ ॥viśvaiśca devaiḥ sādhyaiśca brāhmaṇaiśca maharṣibhiḥ |
āpatsu maraṇād bhītairvidheḥ pratinidhiḥ kṛtaḥ || 29 ||The substitute of the Primary Rule was ordained by the Viśvedevas, the Sādhyas and the great Brāhmaṇa Sages, when they were afraid of perishing in abnormal times.—(29)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This also means that the substitute shall be adopted only in adversity, never in prosperity.—(29)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 167);—and in Smṛtitattva II (p. 87.)
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.28-30)
See Comparative notes for Verse 1.75.