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 11.34
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
क्षत्रियो बाहुवीर्येण तरेदापदमात्मनः ।
धनेन वैश्यशूद्रौ तु जपहोमैर्द्विजोत्तमः ॥ ३४ ॥kṣatriyo bāhuvīryeṇa taredāpadamātmanaḥ |
dhanena vaiśyaśūdrau tu japahomairdvijottamaḥ || 34 ||The Kṣatriya shall cut through his misfortunes by the strength of his arms; the Vaiśya and the Śūdra by their wealth, and the chief of the twice-born by muttered prayers and oblations into the fire.—(34)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This is supplementary to what has gone before.
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 232).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.31-35)
[See 9.290 above; and texts thereunder; also 9.313-321.]
See Comparative notes for Verse 11.31.