Part 3.24 - Samuccaya

Explanation - 985 1 While dealing with penances gift and sacrifices we get MS XI-27
which says
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"In case the prescribed animal and soma sacrifices cannot
be performed, let him always offer at the change of the year a Vaisvānari
Ishti as a penance (for omission)."
Here question arises whether a man should go for expiation laid
down in the Sruti and Smrti combinding or one of these, when a man
could not perform Pashu and Soma sacrifices.
Medhati thi on commenting on this stanza says that a man should
go for expiation stated in the Sruti or in the Smrti and not combindly
as stated by others. He further explains his stand-point giving
example of staying of Brahmana and states authority that he may perform
Abhijit or Visvajit.
Visvajit.
Here Medhāti thi bent down on Vikalpa then the
Samuccaya and refutes the opinion of others.
Here Medha tithi records the view point of some commentators of MS
who hold that in performing Visvänar Isiti by way of an expiation a man shut
should make a combination of all the details laid down in the Sruti and
Sirti. Medha tithi, however, does not subscribe to this view and points
out that the present text of MS can be looked upon as a case of option
only.
(Other commentators of Manu are not commenting on this point).
1. इष्टिं वैश्वानरीं नित्यं निर्वपेदब्द पर्यये ।
कप्तानां पशुसोमानां निष्कृत्यर्थमसंभवे ॥ १३.२७५
[iṣṭiṃ vaiśvānarīṃ nityaṃ nirvapedabda paryaye |
kaptānāṃ paśusomānāṃ niṣkṛtyarthamasaṃbhave || 13.275
] ms P 1355
Mandlik edition