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...

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

यथाऽश्वमेधः क्रतुराड् सर्वपापापनोदनः ।
तथाऽघमर्षणं सूक्तं सर्वपापापनोदनम् ॥ २६० ॥

yathā'śvamedhaḥ kraturāḍ sarvapāpāpanodanaḥ |
tathā'ghamarṣaṇaṃ sūktaṃ sarvapāpāpanodanam || 260 ||

Just as the Aśvamedha, the king of sacrifices, is destructive of all sins, even so is the ‘Aghamarṣaṇa Hymn’ also destructive of all sins.—(260)

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

The verse is purely commendatory.—(260)

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(verses 11.259-260)

These verses are quoted in Madanapārijāta (p. 746).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

Viṣṇu (55.7).—‘Even as the Āśvamedha, the King of sacrifices, removes all sin, so does the Aghamarṣaṇa also remove all sin.’

Baudhāyana (4.2.15).—(Same as Vaśiṣṭha 26.8, for which see under 259.)

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