Verse 11.171

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

पैतृस्वसेयीं भगिनीं स्वस्रीयां मातुरेव च ।
मातुश्च भ्रातुस्तनयां गत्वा चान्द्रायणं चरेत् ॥ १७१ ॥

paitṛsvaseyīṃ bhaginīṃ svasrīyāṃ mātureva ca |
mātuśca bhrātustanayāṃ gatvā cāndrāyaṇaṃ caret || 171 ||

On having had intercourse with one’s sister born of his father’s sister, or of his mother’s sister, or of his mother’s full brother,—one should perform the Cāndrāyaṇa.—(171)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Sister born of the father’s sister’—is the daughter of the father’s sister; similarly the daughter of the mother’s sister.

‘Mother’s brother’— maternal uncle.

‘Full’— uterine.—(171)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Saṃskāra, p. 714);—in Nirṇayasindhu (p. 198);—in Vidhānapārijāta (p. 691);—and in Parāśaramādhava (Ācāra, p. 470), which has the following notes:—‘The term ‘bhaginī’ qualifies ‘paitṛṣvaseyī’ and the rest,—‘āptasya’ qualifies ‘the mother’s brother’, after which ‘daughter’ is to be understood; ‘āptasya’ means ‘Sapiṇḍa’; the ‘mother’ is one who has been married by the ‘gāndharva’ and other forms of marriage;—in the term ‘paitṛṣvaseyī’ also the ‘pitṛṣvasā’, ‘father’s sister’ meant is one who is still within the limits of ‘Sapiṇḍa’ relationship, and who had been married by the Gāndharva form;—it is only when the term is taken in this sense that the qualification ‘bhaginī’ has some significance.

It is quoted in Nṛsiṃhaprasāda (Saṃskāra 52a);—and in Smṛticandrikā (Saṃskāra, p. 187), which explains ‘āptasya’ (which is its reading for ‘tanayām’) as ‘a near sapiṇḍa’.

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 11.170-171)

(See text under 49, above.)

See Comparative notes for Verse 11.170.