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 12.16
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
पञ्चभ्य एव मात्राभ्यः प्रेत्य दुष्कृतिनां नृणाम् ।
शरीरं यातनार्थीयमन्यदुत्पद्यते ध्रुवम् ॥ १६ ॥pañcabhya eva mātrābhyaḥ pretya duṣkṛtināṃ nṛṇām |
śarīraṃ yātanārthīyamanyadutpadyate dhruvam || 16 ||In the case of misbehaved persons, there is produced out of five constituents, another strong body, for the suffering of torments, after death.—(16)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Out of the five material substances another body is produced.
The meaning is that a material body is produced, without the process involved in the mixture of semen and ovule. In fact, it is only in the case of ‘misbehaved men’ that this body is made up of material substances; in the case of righteous men it is made up of pure light and consists of mere Ākāśa; as is declared in the passage—‘Consisting of air, with a body of pure Ākāśa, etc.’
‘Torment’—great suffering.
‘Strong’—powerful enough to suffer super-physical torment.—(16)