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 12.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
यो यदेषां गुणो देहे साकल्येनातिरिच्यते ।
स तदा तद्गुणप्रायं तं करोति शरीरिणम् ॥ २५ ॥yo yadeṣāṃ guṇo dehe sākalyenātiricyate |
sa tadā tadguṇaprāyaṃ taṃ karoti śarīriṇam || 25 ||Whichsoever of these qualities wholly predominates in a body, it makes the owner of that body abound in that quality.—(25)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Though every entity is possessed of the three qualities, yet if any one of these should happen to ‘wholly’—entirely—‘predominate’—exceed others—in a body, on account of the influence of his past deeds, that quality suppresses every other quality of that person; hence, the owner of that body comes to ‘abound in that quality’; that is, in his character, he shows signs of that quality and abandons in the other qualities.—(25)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Parāśaramādhava (Prāyaścitta p. 487);—and in Nṛsiṃhaprasāda (Prāyaścitta, 40b.)