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The published edition from which this e-text was transcribed is printed in the
Devanāgarī script. The electronic text below is in a lossless transliteration using
the Latin alphabet. The transliteration scheme used is the IAST (The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration). IAST differs in
small ways from ISO 15919, but is preferred by most working Sanskrit scholars.
Conversion of this file to ISO 15919 can be achieved by performing the following
replacements throughout the file: ṛ -> r̥ and ṃ -> ṃ
Members of a compound are separated by periods.
External sandhi is decomposed with -.
K: Manusmrti with the Sanskrit Commentary Manvartha-Muktavali of Kulluka Bhatta, ed. J.L. Shastri, 1983. (Compared with the edition of Kashi Skt Series 114, ed., Haragovinda Sastri.) M: Manusmrti with the commentary of Medhatithi, 2 vols., Calcutta, 1967. M: Manu-smrti with the "Manubhasya" of Medhatithi, ed., Ganganatha Jha, GOI 1932, 1939, rep. 1992.
Text is based upon K, and M's variant is given at each pada-end. There are verses which are found only in K or M. Different numbering of verses between M and K is noted.
M: variants of Medhatithi's.
References to each portion of the Sanskrit text have been placed at the start of each line: e.g., M9.19a/ refers to Shastri's edition of the Manusmṛti, Chapter 9, Verse 19, Line 1 - Shastri, J. L., op. cit..
Chapter and section headings are from: Olivelle, P., op. cit..
Page references to Jolly's edition of the Sanskrit text have been placed in the body of the text: e.g., -- J 6 -- refers to Jolly's 1887 edition, page 6 - Jolly, J., op. cit..
Page references to Olivelle's edition and English translation have been placed below and to the right of the section headings: e.g., [ O edn 390-391 :: O tr. 89 refers to Olivelle's 2005 edition, pages 390 to 391, and translation, page 89 - Olivelle, P., op. cit..
(Although Medhatithi comments on the above verse, Jha's edition does not count it in his numbering of the text. Therefore, Jha ed.'s numbering is the same with K in the following.
The following three verses are found only in M. (Jha's edition does not count them in its numbering of the text, although Medhatithi gives their commentary.