Manava Dharmashastra 3.167

3.167

“nanu cāndhasya kuto darśanam | yenedamucyate vīkṣyāndho navateriti”| satyam | tatpradeśasannidhānamanena lakṣyate | yāvān deśaścakṣuṣmato dṛṣṭigocarastāvato deśādanāvṛtādandho vivāsanīyaḥ | kāṇaḥ ṣaṣṭeḥ | nātrāyamartho'ta ūrdhvaṃ bhojyā iti | kevalaṃ saṅkhyāpacayena doṣalāghavaṃ prāyaścittaviśeṣārthaṃ jñāpyate | śvitrī kuṣṭhī bhaṇyate | pāparogī prasiddhaḥ |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
“How can there be any looking by the blind man;—by virtue of which the text says ‘the blind man by looking, etc.’?”

True; what is meant is only his proximity to the place. The meaning is that, in an uncovered place, the blind man should be removed away from such distance from which the man with eyes could see.

‘The one-eyed man of sixty;’—this does not mean that if the number is more than these, they may be fed (even in the presence of the blind, etc.). All that the reducing of the number means is that the delinquency would be less serious, and hence the expiatory rite to be performed would be on a smaller scale.

It is the leper that is called ‘śvitrī.’

‘The man suffering from a foul disease’—is well known,—(177)