[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) › 3.42 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.42 Manubhāṣya 3.42 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.42) samāsato vivāhānāṃ phalapradarśanametat | ye yasya vivāhā vihitāste'ninditāstairuḍhānāṃ yā prajā putrādilakṣaṇā sā'nindyā bhavati praśasyetyarthaḥ | ninditaiḥ pratiṣiddhaiḥ ninditā garhitā | tasmādduḥkhabhāginī prajā mā bhūditi nindyānvivarjayet | > Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya): > This verse sums up the results of marriages briefly. Those marriages are called ‘unblamable’ which have been sanctioned by the scriptures: and the offspring—in the shape of son, etc.—born from wives wedded by those forms of marriage is ‘unblamable,’—i.e., praiseworthy. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘From blameworthy’—i.e., prohibited—‘marriages’ is born ‘blameworthy,’ defective, child. > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi > ‘Therefore’—with the view that such children may not be born as become a source of pain, ‘one should avoid the blamable marriages’—(42) > — Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi - [Previous: 3.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.41) - [Next: 3.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.43) - [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.3.42.p2) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.42) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.42) · Pramāṇa