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 10.75
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
अध्यापनमध्ययनं यजनं याजनं तथा ।
दानं प्रतिग्रहश्चैव षट् कर्माण्यग्रजन्मनः ॥ ७५ ॥adhyāpanamadhyayanaṃ yajanaṃ yājanaṃ tathā |
dānaṃ pratigrahaścaiva ṣaṭ karmāṇyagrajanmanaḥ || 75 ||Teaching, studying, sacrificing for oneself, sacrificing for others, giving and receiving gifts are the six functions for the ‘first born’.—(75)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
These were mentioned under Discourse I, only with a view to eulogising the Treatise; on the present occasion they are mentioned for being enjoined. Though the injunction of each of them singly has already gone before, yet, in a friendly spirit, the author, sets them forth here collectively. And as this statement is dependent upon other injunctions, it is to be taken as reiterating what has Been enjoined before, for the purpose of introducing the forthcoming injunction.—(75)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Paribhāṣā, p. 45).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 10.74-76)
See Comparative notes for Verse 10.74.