Verse 7.92

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

न सुप्तं न विसंनाहं न नग्नं न निरायुधम् ।
नायुध्यमानं पश्यन्तं न परेण समागतम् ॥ ९२ ॥

na suptaṃ na visaṃnāhaṃ na nagnaṃ na nirāyudham |
nāyudhyamānaṃ paśyantaṃ na pareṇa samāgatam || 92 ||

Nor one who is sleeping, nor him who is without his armour, nor one who is naked, nor one deprived of his weapons, nor one who is only looking on and not fighting, nor one who is engaged in fighting with ahother person;—(92)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Naked’.—‘Bhagnam’, ‘broken’, ‘defeated’, is another reading. Fighting with one without hie arrows having been forbidden, there is no possibility of any one engaging a ‘naked’ person. Hence ‘nakedness’ should be taken as referring to that partial nakedness which consists in being deprived of the turban or some such part of his armour. As regards the ‘broken’ or ‘defeated’ man also,—since fighting with ‘one who has turned to flight’ is also forbidden (in 93),—it means that when the enemy who, though still facing his victorious foe, says ‘I shall not fight with you any longer’, he shall not be pressed to continue the fight.

‘Nor one who is only looking on and not lighting’;—the mere on-looker should not be struck; this prohibition however does not apply to the man who looks on, as well as fights.

‘One engaged in fighting with another person’;—a man who is fighting one person should not be struck by another.—(92)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Rājanīti, p. 406);—and in Nītimayūkha (p. 80).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 7.91-93)

See Comparative notes for Verse 7.91.