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Manava Dharmashastra 6.56

Manubhāṣya 6.56

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Sanskrit

6.56

bhuktavanto janā yasminkāle sa bhuktavajjanaḥ | evaṃ vidhūmādayo'pi | śarāvāṇāṃ saṃpāta ucchiṣṭānāṃ bhūmau tyāgaḥ; sa yadā'tīto bhavati | sarvaiścaitena prathame pākakāle bhikṣādānāvasaro nivṛtto yadā bhavati, tadā bhikṣitavyamityāha | vidhūma ityādinā dvitīyapākapravṛttimāha | sannā musalā avaghātānnivṛttāḥ sthāpitāḥ |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
That time at which people have already eaten. Similarly with the other epithets, ‘Vidhūme’ and the rest.

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

‘Removal of the dishes,’—the throwing away of the dishes in which people have taken their food; when this has been finished.

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

From all this what follows is that he shall beg for food after the first occasion for the giving of alms, during the first instalment of the cooking, has passed away.

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

‘When there ie no smoke’ etc., indicate the impossibility of the cooking being done again.

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

When the pestles have ‘ceased to ply’—i.e., kept aside.—(56)

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

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