Book 3 - Adhyaya 8

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

One's own mother, sister, wife of the preceptor and the wife of one's maternal uncle — if one carnally approaches any ofthese, there is no means ofexpiation (for this sin).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The sin in carnally approaching one's sister is the same as in the case of contact with one's mother. The same is the result in contacting the wife of the preceptor. And the pre- ceptors are of various types.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Beginning with Brahmopadesu (i.e. imparting the Gayatrl Mantra) and ending with (the exposition) of the Vedanta philosophy, if everything is taught by one person alone, he is called Maftazu.ru (Great preceptor).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

If one carnally approaches the Guru's wife, it is the ruin ofhis soul. Ifthe wife of Acarya is defiled, one should perform Krcchra and Atikrcchra rites for twelve years, each of them lasting for six years.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Ifa person, out ofdelusion, desires to cohabit with his wife during her monthly course, he shall become purified (after the act) only by taking bath, wearing new clothes and performing expiatory rites mentioned before.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

After fasting for the remaining part of the day, he should take bath and perform religious rites. In the case of sexual contact with other women also, everything should be performed similarly.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Ifa person cohabits with a virgin without the legiti- mate marital rites, but with the permission of her parents, he shall become purified by observing fast for three nights. Further, he must marry only that girl.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

If any one cohabits with a virgin given in marriage to another, he becomes purified after a quarter of the day.* If anyone carnally approaches a virgin with the permission of her parents he becomes purified in halfa day.**

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Ifa person with the knowledge of his parents co- habits with a girl for a month even when she is a virgin, he

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

But she must get blessings of Brahmanas and perform marital rites. Rites of renunciation* (?) should be performed. So also the rites laid down in Srutis, Smrtis etc.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The entire universe consisting of the mobile and immobile beings, beginning with Brahma and ending with an ant, is said to be evolved out of the five elements and is endow- ed with four instincts.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

One should be endowed with devotion and faith.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

By propitiating parasakti, one gets liberated from all* sins. Thereby the sins committed in the course of ten million Kalpas perish. He gets rid of all calamities and obtains alL ambitions. "

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"O Holy lord, conversant with all holy rites and pious activities, O holy sage, engaged in the welfare of all living

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The esoteric fifteen-lettered mantra of Parasakti is: Ha Sa Ka La

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The remaining chapter discusses the last Maliapataka viz associa- tion with those who have committed one of the Mahapatakas. As in the case ofincest, Smrtis like Manu XI. 181, Yaj III 261 etc. have prescribed different penances for such sinners but there is no unanimity among them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"The sin due to contact is mentioned to be offour kinds: Kartd (the perpetrator) is the most important one. The others in due order are Sahakrt (collaborator), Nimitta

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The sin of these shall be thus: that of the latter is one-tenth of the preceding one. One's purity is in accordance with the manner mentioned before.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The sin ofthepeople selling the following things 1 2 becomes reduced to the tenth from the earlier to the later in the order in which they are mentioned •

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

VV. 41-45. list the prohibited things for sale.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

W. 46-59 throw light on complex social situation in ancient India and the superstition of pollution by sight.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

If a woman eats the food of a Bruva etc., she shall feed Brahmanas for a day. If a Brahmana takes their food in an emergency, he is not defiled thereby.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Ifa person takes food inspired seven times by the mantra ldarh Visnu etc. (RV. 1-22-17) and meditates over it with the idea "I am He", he shall not become defiled.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Or he shall meditate on Sankara, repeat the Mantra Tryambakam etc. (RV. 7-59-12) and meditate over it with the idea "I am He", he does not become defiled.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Therefore desire is hard to overcome for all living beings. The creator of the universe, having made male and female forms, through desire itself

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

first set in motion activity consisting of creation, sustenance and dissolution. Through that activity they proceed; through its cessation they reach the imperishable goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

How those who are wise may attain liberation through activity itself — hear now as I tell you that secret and that means.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Vasudeva, the all-self, is the ancient Person; this Lakshmi is the root Prakriti, mother of the whole world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Union is performed for the satisfaction of the five and the non-five; if union is performed thus under the power of the mantra,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

both of them act through the mantra, and no fault attaches to them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

This is for those strong in austerity; for others alone it leads downward. It applies only to one's own wife, and even for them it is by the force of the injunction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

For those two whose hearts are united as one self, whose minds are moist with devotion to the Goddess, there is no sin, unless on forbidden days.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"This is Amba, mother of the world, and this Person is Sadashiva; for the satisfaction of the twenty-five principles union is now performed."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

If union is performed under the power of this mantra, both are doers of merit, and no fault attaches to them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

And hear this, O lord of the gods, a supreme and great secret that destroys all sins at once.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Filled with devotion and faith, having bathed and standing in water, one should recite the fifteen-syllable mantra a thousand and eight times;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

having worshipped the supreme Shakti, one is freed from all sins. By it are destroyed even sins done over crores of kalpas; one is freed from all calamities and obtains every wish.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Indra said: O Lord, knower of all dharma, devoted to the welfare of all beings, please explain the particulars of sin arising from association.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Brihaspati said: Sin arising from association is declared fourfold: the doer, the instigator, the helper and the one who consents, in order.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The sin decreases by a tenth in each case in turn; purification is by the method stated before.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Liquor, poisoned meat, exuded gums, mushrooms, a kind of onion, garlic, kalinga, the great kosha gourd,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

bimbi, fungus, hastini, shishulambika, udumbara fig, brinjal, kataka and bilva-mallika —

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the sin in eating these should be declared as decreasing tenfold in order. The seller of a city, a village, a vaishya's goods, or gifts to courtesans,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the servant, the city-dweller, the dweller in a bad village, the accused, the physician, the Vaikhanasa, the Shaiva, one who lives by women, the seller of food,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

one who lives by arms, the wandering mendicant and the reviler of Vedic conduct — in eating the food of these, the sin decreases tenfold in order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

For food independently prepared with oil, the stated sin applies; for such food eaten after it has been seen by them, the stated sin should be declared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

For cooked rice of brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishyas and shudras, if one eats food cooked in oil that has not been seen, the sin is a quarter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Food prepared by a twice-born man's maidservant — if seen by her, half of that; food of a courtesan is three quarters, likewise if seen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The cowherd's food is like a shudra's, except for the four products of the cow; food cooked with oil, ghee and molasses from a vaishya is not defiled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A fallen brahmin woman is like a vaishya; what is seen by her is somewhat defiled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A twice-born who eats the food of a braggart should perform a hundred breath-controls, or recite the Drupada verse three times standing in water;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

or he should likewise recite "Idam Vishnu" or the Tryambaka mantra in water, and fasting for one night, he is then purified of the sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Or he should sprinkle the food with the water-verses of the Pavamani hymns, recite the Anna Sukta and the Bhrigu Varuni passage,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and recite the verse "Brahmarpanam"; keeping the observance and fasting for one night, he will then become pure.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A woman who has eaten the food of such a person should feed one or more brahmins. In distress, a brahmin who eats their food incurs no fault.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Consecrating it seven times with the mantra "Idam Vishnu," meditating on it with the attitude "I am He," one who eats is not tainted by faults.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Or meditating on Shankara and reciting the Tryambaka mantra, with the attitude "I am He," through that knowledge one is not tainted by faults.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hear my words, O lord of the gods, this secret: meditating on the supreme Goddess Shakti and reciting the fifteen-syllable mantra,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the twice-born who each day eats with the thought that it has been offered to her suffers nothing from the faults of food, nor fear of poverty,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

nor fear of disease, nor fear of enemies; for the one who recites, there is liberation and auspiciousness everywhere and always.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Thus, O Shakra, I have told you in detail about sins and their expiations. What else do you wish to hear?