[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) › [Manubhashya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) › 3.150 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.150 Manubhāṣya 3.150 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.150) dhanuḥ śarāṃcca yaḥ śilpīva karoti | yaścāgre didhiṣūpatiḥ | didhiṣūśabdaḥ kākākṣivadubhayena saṃmbadhyate | smṛtiśāstratvāccehaśaḥ sambandho labhyate | lekhāpaloṣṭhādayo'pi smṛtyarthaṃ saṃketyante bhavanti cārthakarāḥ | ata etanna vācyaṃ "kathamekaśabdaḥ samāsāntargato dvābhyāṃ bhinnaprasthānābhyāṃ abhisambadhyeta" iti | gautamena hi dvayaṃ niṣiddham | ihāpi sambandhabhede liṅkam | dvipadaḥ samāsaḥ | na hyagredidhiṣūpatirnāma kaścidasti | etau ca vakṣyamāṇalakṣaṇau | mitradhruk | mitraṃ yo druhyati | mitrasya yaḥ kāryopaghāte pravarttate | dyū tavṛttiḥ dyūtaṃ vṛttirjīvikā yasya | "nanu ca 'kitavo madyapa' ityatroktameva" | nāvaśyaṃ dyūtavṛttireva dyūtasya prayojakaḥ, kiṃrtāha yaḥ svayaṃ devituṃ na jānāti gurubhayādvā na dīvyati | vyasanī sa tu devaiḥ śaptatayā'nyaṃ devayati | tadartho dvitīyaḥ kitavaśandaḥ | athavā akṛtaśrokā dyūtasabhāthāṇavo dyūtavṛttayaḥ | putra ācāryo'dhyāpako yasya | mukhyamācāryatvaṃ na putre sambhavati | > The maker of bows and arrows, he whose wife dallies with another person and he who makes love to his brother’s widow, he who injures a friend, he who subsists by gambling and he who has his own son for his teacher.—(160) > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya): > He who, as a professional artisan, makes bows and arrows. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Agredidhiṣūpatiḥ;’—the term ‘didhiṣū’ is connected both ways, like the single eye-ball of the crow operating in both sockets. Such a construction is permissible, because the text belongs to the category of a ‘snmṛti-śātra.’ Even (meaningless) lines and clods of earth are made to yield some meaning, in consideration of the requirements of Smṛtis; and they come out useful too. For this reason, the objection need not be raised as to how a single term occurring in the middle of a compound can be construed with two different terms. In fact. Gautama (15.16) has expressly prohibited both (The ‘agredidhiṣū’ and the ‘didhiṣūpati’), and this indicates the plausibility of the above construction; and the compound really contains two terms. Further, there is no such person as ‘agredidhiṣūpati.’ The definition of these two (‘agredidhiṣū and didhiṣūpatī’) will he supplied later on. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Who injures a friend’—who puts obstacles in a friend’s business. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Who subsists by gambling’—The man for whom gambling is the means of subsistence. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > “Such a person has already been mentioned in the preceding verse.” > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > But the person who helps people to gamble (The ‘keeper of a gambling house, mentioned before) is not necessarily one who makes a living by it; in fact, it is one who himself does not know gambling, or who does not do it through fear of his elders; hut, being addicted to it as an amusement, he always makes others gamble; and it is for excluding this kind of man that we had the second ‘Kitava’ (in the preceding verse; the word ‘Kitava’ having been first included in verse 151). > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > Or, the term ‘dyūtavṛtti’ may stand for those who, without any money themselves, are constant dummy visitors at gambling places. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > He whose son is his teacher; it is not possible for the son to be his father’s ‘ācārya’ in the real sense of this term.—(160) > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi - [Previous: 3.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.149) - [Next: 3.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.151) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3) ## Translations (1) - [Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi~en-jha.3.160.p1) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.150) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.150) · Pramāṇa