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 9.48
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
यथा गोऽश्वोष्ट्रदासीषु महिष्यजाविकासु च ।
नोत्पादकः प्रजाभागी तथैवान्याङ्गनास्वपि ॥ ४८ ॥yathā go'śvoṣṭradāsīṣu mahiṣyajāvikāsu ca |
notpādakaḥ prajābhāgī tathaivānyāṅganāsvapi || 48 ||As with cows, mares, she-camels, slave-girls, buffaloes, she-goats and ewes, it is not the begetter who obtains the offspring,—even thus it is with the wives of others—(48)
Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
[There is no Bhāṣya on this verse. The same idea occurs again in 55 below].
Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha
This verse is quoted in Vivādaratnākara (p. 578);—and in Vyavahāra-Bālambhaṭṭī (p. 574).
Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 9.48-56)
Parāśara (1.16).—(Same as Manu.)
Śaṅkha-Likhita (Vivādaratnākara, p. 580).—‘If the seed is sown by a stranger in a soil without the knowledge of the owner of the soil, it belongs to the owner of the soil.’
Nārada (Do., p. 581).—‘There can be no crops without the soil, nor is there any crop without the seed; hence the child is held to belong to both the father and the mother.’
Śaṅkha-Likhita (Do. p. 557).—‘The child belongs to the person who married the girl with mantras,—says Aṅgiras: but Uśanas says that when the seed has been sown with the consent of both the owner of the soil and the owner of the seed, the product belongs to both.’
Hārita (Do.).—‘No soil is productive without the seed, nor does the seed grow without the soil, hence the child belongs to both—say some people.’