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 11.121
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
मारुतं पुरुहूतं च गुरुं पावकमेव च ।
चतुरो व्रतिनोऽभ्येति ब्राह्मं तेजोऽवकीर्णिनः ॥ १२१ ॥mārutaṃ puruhūtaṃ ca guruṃ pāvakameva ca |
caturo vratino'bhyeti brāhmaṃ tejo'vakīrṇinaḥ || 121 ||The spiritual power of the Religious Student, who has become ‘immoral,’ ‘goes away into the maruts, indra, Bṛhaspati and agni.—(121)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This is a declamatory statement in support of the aforesaid injunction of the oblations to certain deities.
In the case of the Religious Student who has committed an immoral act, his ‘spiritual power,’—the merit acquired by him by the various kinds of knowledge—‘goes away into’ several deities; i.e., it disappears among them. What is meant is that it departs from the Religious Student—(121)
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.118-123)
See Comparative notes for Verse 11.118.