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 9.273
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
यश्चापि धर्मसमयात् प्रच्युतो धर्मजीवनः ।
दण्डेनैव तमप्योषेत् स्वकाद् धर्माद् हि विच्युतम् ॥ २७३ ॥yaścāpi dharmasamayāt pracyuto dharmajīvanaḥ |
daṇḍenaiva tamapyoṣet svakād dharmād hi vicyutam || 273 ||If one who subsists on religion deviates from religious ordinances, he shall punish him severely by a fine,—fallen as he is from his duty.—(273)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
(verses 9.262-273)
(No Bhāṣya.)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 625), which adds the following notes:—‘Samaya’, scriptural conventions;—‘dharmajīvanaḥ’ Brāhmaṇa and the rest;—‘āploṣet’, should bum i.e., inflict pain;—and in Vyavahāra-Bālambhaṭṭī (p. 991).