Verse 9.246-247

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

यत्र वर्जयते राजा पापकृद्भ्यो धनागमम् ।
तत्र कालेन जायन्ते मानवा दीर्घजीविनः ॥ २४६ ॥
निष्पद्यन्ते च सस्यानि यथोप्तानि विशां पृथक् ।
बालाश्च न प्रमीयन्ते विकृतं च न जायते ॥ २४७ ॥

yatra varjayate rājā pāpakṛdbhyo dhanāgamam |
tatra kālena jāyante mānavā dīrghajīvinaḥ || 246 ||
niṣpadyante ca sasyāni yathoptāni viśāṃ pṛthak |
bālāśca na pramīyante vikṛtaṃ ca na jāyate || 247 ||

In a country where the King avoids the income of wealth from sinners, men are, in time, born to be long-lived—(246) the crops of husbandmen grow, according as they are sown; children do not die, and no mis-shaped child is born.—(247)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

(versess 9.246-247)

These declamatory assertions are well-known.

‘Are in time born’;—what is meant is also the present birth i.e., persons already born, or going to be born.

‘Misshaped’—devoid of eyes, or of ears and so forth—(246-247)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(verses 9.246)

This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 638);—and in Vyavahāra-Bālambhaṭṭī (p. 1053).

(verse 9.247)

This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 638), which explains ‘vikṛtam’ as being maimed of hands, feet and so forth;—and in Vyavahāra-Bālambhaṭṭī (p. 1053).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 9.243-246)

See Comparative notes for Verse 9.243.