Verse 11.122

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

एतस्मिन्नेनसि प्राप्ते वसित्वा गर्दभाजिनम् ।
सप्तागारांश्चरेद् भैक्षं स्वकर्म परिकीर्तयन् ॥ १२२ ॥

etasminnenasi prāpte vasitvā gardabhājinam |
saptāgārāṃścared bhaikṣaṃ svakarma parikīrtayan || 122 ||

On this sin having been incurred, the man, clothed in the skin of the ass, shall go begging alms at seven houses; proclaiming his own deed.—(122)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Dressed’—covered.

‘His own deed’—saying—‘I am an immoral Religious Student.’—(122)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(verses 11.122-123)

These verses are quoted in Aparārka (p. 1141), as laying down an ‘yearly penance’ for the unchaste student;—in Mitākṣarā (3.280), as referring to the case where the woman with whom the student hits misconducted himself is either the wife of an unlearned Brāhmaṇa or that of a learned Vaiśya; the expiation in the, case of the wife of a learned Brāhmaṇa or learned Kṣatriya consisting of the three or two years penance.

They are quoted in Parāśaramādhava (Prāyaścitta, p. 436);—in Prāyaścittaviveka (p. 387);—and in Smṛtisāroddhāra (p. 363).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(verses 11.118-123)

See Comparative notes for Verse 11.118.