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 10.29
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
ते चापि बाह्यान् सुबहूंस्ततोऽप्यधिकदूषितान् ।
परस्परस्य दारेषु जनयन्ति विगर्हितान् ॥ २९ ॥te cāpi bāhyān subahūṃstato'pyadhikadūṣitān |
parasparasya dāreṣu janayanti vigarhitān || 29 ||Those also beget on each other’s wives several ‘alien’ sons, greatly tainted and despised.—(29)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Those’—the six castes, ‘Āyogavas’ and the rest—beget several alien sons, on each other’s wives;—i.e., the Kṣattṛ on the wife of the ‘Āyogava’ and so forth,—‘beget sons, despised’—lower in grade than their father,—e.g., the Āyogava begets on the wife of the Kṣattṛ, a son who is more ‘alien’ than himself; and one still more ‘alien’ on the wife of the Caṇḍāla, and so forth.—(29)
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 10.6-41)
See Comparative notes for Verse 10.6.