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 12.82 [The Highest Good]
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
एष सर्वः समुद्दिष्टः कर्मणां वः फलोदयः ।
नैःश्रेयसकरं कर्म विप्रस्येदं निबोधत ॥ ८२ ॥eṣa sarvaḥ samuddiṣṭaḥ karmaṇāṃ vaḥ phalodayaḥ |
naiḥśreyasakaraṃ karma viprasyedaṃ nibodhata || 82 ||Thus has been indicated to you the entire manner in which results proceed from actions; now learn that act which brings about the Highest Good of the Brāhmaṇa.—(82)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The results proceeding from such acts as have been forbidden have been duly described; hence one should avoid such acts. Inasmuch as sensual pleasures are conducive to suffering, one should desist from them, and one should remain fixed in that course of action which is conducive to Liberation, and which is described under the coming section on ‘Knowledge.’ This is what we are going to expound now.—(82)