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 8.420
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एवं सर्वानिमान् राजा व्यवहारान् समापयन् ।
व्यपोह्य किल्बिषं सर्वं प्राप्नोति परमां गतिम् ॥ ४२० ॥evaṃ sarvānimān rājā vyavahārān samāpayan |
vyapohya kilbiṣaṃ sarvaṃ prāpnoti paramāṃ gatim || 420 ||The king who completes all this business, removes all sin and attains the highest state.—(420)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
In the aforesaid manner the king who completes all the ‘business’ relating to the Nonpayment of debts and the rest,—i.e., carries them to their end,—removes all kinds of sin, and attains ‘the highest state’ secured by him, in the shape of Heaven and Liberation.—(420)
Thus ends the Bhāṣya on Discourse VIII.
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Parāśaramādhava (Vyavahāra, p. 396).