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 11.53
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
चरितव्यमतो नित्यं प्रायश्चित्तं विशुद्धये ।
निन्द्यैर्हि लक्षणैर्युक्ता जायन्तेऽनिष्कृतेनसः ॥ ५३ ॥caritavyamato nityaṃ prāyaścittaṃ viśuddhaye |
nindyairhi lakṣaṇairyuktā jāyante'niṣkṛtenasaḥ || 53 ||Because persons with sins unexpiated are born with disgraceful marks, therefore expiatory rites shall always be performed, for the purpose of purification.—(53)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Disgraceful marks’—Disfigured nails, black teeth and so forth.—(53)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Mitākṣarā, (3.220), to the effect that the omission of an expiatory rite involves sin;—in Parāśaramādhava (Prāyaścitta. p. 3) to the same effect—in Smṛtitattva, (p. 473);—and in Prāyaścittaviveka, (p. 17).
Comparative notes by various authors
Yājñavalkya (3.220).—‘Therefore, for his purification, the sinner should perform expiatory penances; thus do the people and his own self become appeased.’