Manubhashya 3.167.p2

3.167.p2

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
These men, whose ‘conduct’—line of action—is ‘reprehensible.’ The ‘blind’ and the rest having their previous misconduct indicated by these disabilities; while the ‘thief,’ etc., have their misconduct actually perceptible in the present.