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 11.123
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
तेभ्यो लब्धेन भैक्षेण वर्तयन्नेककालिकम् ।
उपस्पृशंस्त्रिषवणं त्वब्देन स विशुध्यति ॥ १२३ ॥tebhyo labdhena bhaikṣeṇa vartayannekakālikam |
upaspṛśaṃstriṣavaṇaṃ tvabdena sa viśudhyati || 123 ||Subsisting on a single meal per day out of the alms obtained from those houses, and bathing at the three ‘extractions,’ he becomes pure after one year.—(123)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Bathing’—‘taking his bath’—in the morning, at midday and in the evening, he becomes purified in one year.—(123)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
(verses 11.122-123)
See Explanatory notes for Verse 11.122.
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.118-123)
See Comparative notes for Verse 11.118.