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 10.107
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
भरद्वाजः क्षुधार्तस्तु सपुत्रो विजने वने ।
बह्वीर्गाः प्रतिजग्राह वृधोस्तक्ष्णो महातपाः ॥ १०७ ॥bharadvājaḥ kṣudhārtastu saputro vijane vane |
bahvīrgāḥ pratijagrāha vṛdhostakṣṇo mahātapāḥ || 107 ||Bharadvāja, a man of great austerities, accepted many cows from the carpenter Vṛdhu, when tormented by hunger, along with his sons, in a lonely forest.—(107)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Vṛdhu was a carpenter; a person unfit for receiving gifts from;—from him the sage named Bharadvāja received gifts.—(107)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 935);—and in Parāśaramādhava (Prāyaścitta p. 326).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 10.101-108)
See Comparative notes for Verse 10.101.