[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) › 3.265 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.265 Manubhāṣya 3.265 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.265](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.265) yadyaditi vīpsāyāṃ apratiṣiddhaṃ sarvamannamanujānāti | vidhivat samyakśabdānuvādaḥ | śraddhāsamanvita ityetadatra vidhīyate | śraddhayā dātavyam | tathā dattamannantamakṣayaṃ bhavati pitṝṇāṃ paraloke | anantamiti vā kālāvadhiniṣedhaḥ | akṣayamiti mātrayā vyayābhāvamāha | sarvakālaṃ bhavati prabhūtaṃ ca | > Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya): > ‘Whatever.’—This term sanctions the offering of everything, not actually prohibited. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘According to rule’ is a reiteration of what has been said by means of the term, ‘in the right manner.’ > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Endowed with faith’— This is what is actually prescribed in the present verse:—‘one should make the offering with due faith.’ > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > What is given in this manner ‘becomes endless and inexhaustible for the Pitṛs in the other world.’ ‘Endless’ may be taken as denying all limitation of time;—‘Inexhaustible’ denies non-diminishing of quantity; the sense being ‘it lasts for all time and becomes large in quantity.’—(275) > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi - [Previous: 3.264](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.264) - [Next: 3.266](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.266) - [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.3.275.p2) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.265) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.265](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.265) · Pramāṇa