[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) › 3.201 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.201 Manubhāṣya 3.201 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.201](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.201) yadagnaukartavyaṃ taducyate | agneḥ caturthyarthe ṣaṣṭhī | agniraikā devatā | somayamābhyāmiti dvandvasya devatātvaṃ agnīṣomavat | anayordevatayorādita āpyāyanaṃ havirdānena kṛtvā paścātsantarpayetpitṝn | piṇḍanirvapaṇaṃ brāhmaṇabhojanaṃ ca kuryādityarthaḥ | gṛhye tvanyā devatāḥ samāmnātāḥ | yeṣāṃ gṛhyaṃ nāsti teṣāmidaṃ devatākavacanam | āpyāyanaṃ poṣaṇam | 'haviṣā devatāḥ puṣyantī'tyarthavādaḥ | > Having at fir st brought about the satisfaction of Agni and Soma-Yama by the offering of sacrificial food, he should afterwards satisfy, according to rule, the Pitṛs.—(211). > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya): > It is now described what is to be done in the Fire. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > The Genitive in ‘agneḥ’ has the sense of the Dative; > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > Agni is one deity, and Soma-Yama conjointly form one conjunct deity; just like Agni-Soma. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > Of these two deities, ‘having brought about at first, the satisfaction, by the offering of sacrificial food, he should afterwards satisfy the Pitṛs.’ That is, he should offer balls of food and feed the Brāhmaṇas. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > In the Gṛhyasūtra, other deities have been prescribed; so that the deities mentioned in the present text are for those who have no Gṛhyasūtra of their own. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Satisfaction’ stands for sustenance. That gods are sustained by sacrificial food, is a laudatory exaggertion.—(211). > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi - [Previous: 3.200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.200) - [Next: 3.202](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.202) - [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.3.211.p1) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.201) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.201](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.201) · Pramāṇa