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 4.181
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एतैर्विवादान् सन्त्यज्य सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते ।
एतैर्जितैश्च जयति सर्वान्लोकानिमान् गृही ॥ १८१ ॥etairvivādān santyajya sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate |
etairjitaiśca jayati sarvānlokānimān gṛhī || 181 ||Having renounced quarrel with these, the householder becomes freed from all sins; and, by ignoring them, he wins all these worlds.—(181)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The sin that accrues from such quarelling, does not accrue to him who avoids them;—this is what is meant by the phrase, ‘becomes freed from all sins.’
When these are ignored, he ‘wins’—makes his own—‘all these worlds.’
This is a purely commendatory exaggeration.’—(181).
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Saṃskāra, p. 573).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 4.179-181)
See Comparative notes for Verse 4.179.