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 12.74
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
तेऽभ्यासात् कर्मणां तेषां पापानामल्पबुद्धयः ।
सम्प्राप्नुवन्ति दुःखानि तासु तास्विह योनिषु ॥ ७४ ॥te'bhyāsāt karmaṇāṃ teṣāṃ pāpānāmalpabuddhayaḥ |
samprāpnuvanti duḥkhāni tāsu tāsviha yoniṣu || 74 ||By the repetition of the said sinful acts, those men with shall understanding undergo sufferings in the various forms of existence in this world.—(74)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
By repeating the sinful acts,—there is degradation, but apart from that, they ‘undergo sufferings,’ when they come to be born as worms, insects and the rest—(74)