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Manava Dharmashastra 4.111

Manubhāṣya 4.111

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4.111

ekamanuddiśya āmaśrāddhaṃ, tasya yāvacchrāddhakṛtau gandhalepau tiṣṭhatastāvadanadhyāyaḥ | pūrvasmādvidhau vidhyantaram | dvitīyasminnahani kṛtasnāno'panītatadgandho'dhyayanārhaḥ | upalakṣaṇaṃ caitadasato'pi gandhalepayoryāvadbhuktamannaṃ na jīrya tāvannādhīyīta | viduṣa iti tasyaiva śrāddhabhojanādhikāramanuvadati |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘That which is not offered to his own ancestor;’—i.e., that at which uncooked food is offered;—while of such a rite the ‘odour and stain remain,’ so long he is unfit for study. This is a rule different from the forgoing rule. When on the next day, the man has bathed, and the odour has disappeared, he becomes fit for study.

Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

What is said here is only by way of an iṇḍicatipn. Even while the ‘odour and stain’ are not actually there, the man shall hot study, until the food eaten has become digested.

Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

The epithet ‘learned’ reiterates the rule that it is only the learned Brāhmaṇa that is entitled to eat at funeral rites.—(111).

Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

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