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 11.43
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
तेषां सततमज्ञानां वृषलाग्न्युपसेविनाम् ।
पदा मस्तकमाक्रम्य दाता दुर्गाणि सन्तरेत् ॥ ४३ ॥teṣāṃ satatamajñānāṃ vṛṣalāgnyupasevinām |
padā mastakamākramya dātā durgāṇi santaret || 43 ||The giver shall cut across his miseries by putting his foot upon the heads of those fools who attend upon the Śūdra’s fires.—(43)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The fires are spoken of as ‘the Śūdra’s’ in the sense just explained.
The whole of this section sets forth the evil effects arising from the transgression of the above-mentioned rules—(43)
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 168).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 11.42-43)