Manava Dharmashastra 2.236

2.236

paratra janmāntare yasya phalaṃ bhujyate tatpāratryam | chāndasaṃ rūpametat |
śuśrūṣāyā avirodhenānyaṃ yaṃ yaṃ dharmaṃ samācarettaṃ taṃ nivedayettebhyastān jñāpayet | anuparodhagrahaṇamevamarthaṃ kṛtam | yatteṣāṃ virodhi tatra naivānujñāṃ dāpayitavyāḥ | kaścidṛjuprakṛtirabhyarthyamāna ātmaparādharmamavagaṇayyānujānāti, tannivṛttyarthametat |
manovacanakarmabhiḥ| na nivedanamahaśārthamapi tu yādṛśamanujñānaṃ tādṛśameva karmaṇā darśayet |
athavaivaṃ sambandhaḥ kartavyaḥ—manovacanakarmabhiḥ pāratryaṃ yadyadācarettattannivedayettebhya iti |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Pāratryam’—‘that which is done for the sake of another life’—is that act whose reward is obtained during the next birth. The form of this word is Vedic.

Whatever religious act he should do, apart from the serving of them, without causing them trouble,—of all that he should inform them; he should make it known to them.

The qualification ‘without injury to’ has been added with a view to convey the following idea:—One should, not

press them to permit the performance of an act that may be injurious to them. It sometimes happens that a simple-minded person, when pressed, permits the doing of an act, not minding the harm that it may do him, and the present verse is meant to prohibit this.

‘By thought, word or deed.’—This communication is not for the purpose of accomplishing some unseen result. The meaning is that he should show by his actual deed that he has acted in strict accordance with the permission accorded to him.

Or, the verse may be construed as—‘whatever act for the sake of the next life he does, by thought word or deed, that he should make known to them.’—(236)