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# Manava Dharmashastra 2.232

Manubhāṣya 2.232

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.232](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.2.232)

eteṣvapramādyannārādhane'skhalan | tathā ca tadārādhanāttatrīn lokāñjayetsvakuryādādhipatyamāpnuyāt | gṛhī | gṛhasthāvasthasya hi putrasya pitrādīnāṃ tatkṛtamārādhanamupayujyate | tadā hi tau vṛddhau bhavataḥ | dīpyamānaḥ śobhamānaḥ prakāśamāno vā svenaiva tejasā | devavadādityavaddivi loke modate |

> The Householder who fails not towards these three would win the three regions, and rejoice in heaven, radiant in body, like a God.—(232)  
> — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

> Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):  
> ‘Who fails not’—who does not omit the servise; i.e., by serving these ‘he wins,’—makes his own, obtains mastery over—‘the three regions.’  
> — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

> ‘The householder.’—It is when the son has reached the householder’s stage that his service becomes of great value to his parents and others; as by that time they become old.  
> — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

> ‘Radiant.’—Shining, resplendent with his own effulgence. ‘Like a God,’—i.e., like the Sun.  
> — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

> ‘Rejoices in heaven’—in the heavenly regions.—(232)  
> — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

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## Translations (1)

- [Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi~en-jha.2.232.p1) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English

## Linked texts (1)

- [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.232) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit

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