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 10.56
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
वध्यांश्च हन्युः सततं यथाशास्त्रं नृपाज्ञया ।
वध्यवासांसि गृह्णीयुः शय्याश्चाभरणानि च ॥ ५६ ॥vadhyāṃśca hanyuḥ satataṃ yathāśāstraṃ nṛpājñayā |
vadhyavāsāṃsi gṛhṇīyuḥ śayyāścābharaṇāni ca || 56 ||They shall always execute criminals, in accordance with law, under the orders of the king; and they shall take away the clothes, the beds and the ornaments of those executed.—(56)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
All this has been already described.—(56)