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 4.81
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
यो ह्यस्य धर्ममाचष्टे यश्चैवादिशति व्रतम् ।
सोऽसंवृतं नाम तमः सह तेनैव मज्जति ॥ ८१ ॥yo hyasya dharmamācaṣṭe yaścaivādiśati vratam |
so'saṃvṛtaṃ nāma tamaḥ saha tenaiva majjati || 81 ||He who expounds to him the law, and he who indicates the penance to him, will sink, along with him, into the hell called “asaṃvṛta.”—(81).
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This is a deprecatory supplement to the foregoing text.
‘Will sink along with him;’—this shows that both parties are considered guilty—he who expounds, as also he who hears it expounded.
‘Will sink’—will fall into, i.e., will reach.—(81).
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 220).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 4.80-81)
See Comparative notes for Verse 4.80.