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 12.117 [Summing up of the Esoteric Teaching]
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एवं स भगवान् देवो लोकानां हितकाम्यया ।
धर्मस्य परमं गुह्यं ममेदं सर्वमुक्तवान् ॥ ११७ ॥evaṃ sa bhagavān devo lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā |
dharmasya paramaṃ guhyaṃ mamedaṃ sarvamuktavān || 117 ||Thus has the blessed Lord explained to me, with a desire to benefit mankind, the highest secret of Dharma.—(117)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘The blessed Lord’—Manu—propounded these Ordinances for the ‘benefit of mankind.’ This is what Bhṛgu says to his pupils.
This sets at rest all doubts regarding persons entitled to seek for knowledge.
‘Secret’— the true philosophy of the Self also, the revered Manu has disclosed to me; and I also have disclosed it to you just as I heard it. So that you should not seek for any further knowledge on the subject.—(117)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 1027).