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 11.161
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एषोऽनाद्यादनस्योक्तो व्रतानां विविधो विधिः ।
स्तेयदोषापहर्तॄणां व्रतानां श्रूयतां विधिः ॥ १६१ ॥eṣo'nādyādanasyokto vratānāṃ vividho vidhiḥ |
steyadoṣāpahartṝṇāṃ vratānāṃ śrūyatāṃ vidhiḥ || 161 ||Thus has the law relating to the penances for the eating of improper food been set forth; listen now to the law relating to the penances expiatory of the sins of theft.—(161)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Of penances for the eating of improper food’—i.e., of such food as should not be eaten.
Next follows the law relating to those penances that remove the sin of theft—(161)