[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) › 3.167 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.167 Manubhāṣya 3.167 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.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.’?” > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > 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. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘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. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > It is the leper that is called ‘śvitrī.’ > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘The man suffering from a foul disease’—is well known,—(177) > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi - [Previous: 3.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.166) - [Next: 3.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.168) - [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.3.177.p2) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.167) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.167) · Pramāṇa