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 4.134
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
न हीदृशमनायुष्यं लोके किं चन विद्यते ।
यादृशं पुरुषस्येह परदारोपसेवनम् ॥ १३४ ॥na hīdṛśamanāyuṣyaṃ loke kiṃ cana vidyate |
yādṛśaṃ puruṣasyeha paradāropasevanam || 134 ||In this world, there is nothing so detrimental to a man’s longevity as paying attention to the wife of another person.—(134)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Any such thing as the eating of indigestible food, the stealing of gold, etc., ‘is not so detrimental to a man’s longevity’—which cuts short his life to the same extent—as intercourse with another person’s wife This involves both temporal and spiritual wrong.—(134)
Comparative notes by various authors
Mahābhārata (13.104.21).—(Same as Manu.)