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 12.30
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
त्रयाणामपि चैतेषां गुणानां यः फलोदयः ।
अग्र्यो मध्यो जघन्यश्च तं प्रवक्ष्याम्यशेषतः ॥ ३० ॥trayāṇāmapi caiteṣāṃ guṇānāṃ yaḥ phalodayaḥ |
agryo madhyo jaghanyaśca taṃ pravakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ || 30 ||I am now going to fully describe the results,—good, middling and bad—proceeding from these three qualities.—(30)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘These three’—when they are duly practised, there proceed certain results,—which are either good, bad or middling:—and this is what is now promised as the subject to be dealt with; the exact form of the promise being—‘I am now going to describe that character which the man acquires as the result of the predominance of a particular quality.’—(30)