Book 2 - Adhyaya 39

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

O lord, out of compassion for me, please tell me the rules of impurity, for my knowledge and for the welfare of human beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

O lord of birds, the impurity accruing from birth and death is fourfold. The rules of impurity are applicable to all the four castes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The days of impurity are ten for the relatives on the father*s and mother's side. People should avoid taking meals, during this period, with the relatives of the dead. The bereaved fiunily should neither offer nor receive gifts, should neither undertake nor conduct sacrifices. The study of the Vedas and ifistras is stricdy prohibited.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

One should observe the following while performing obsequial rites: suitability of place and time, sufficiency of wealth, justiffcation of purpose, validity of reason and his capability.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Artisans, architects, physicians, slaves (male or female), kings and Vedic scholars are purified immediately.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

In impurity accruing from birth, the rules are less strict. Mother is purified after ten days, father just after taking bath.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

During the days of marriage, festivity, sacrifice, if a person dies, there is no impurity. The food-stuff collected for use can be utilized by the persons concerned. This is what Manu hzis said.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

In birth the relatives incur no impurity. Impurity attaches to parents alone. Primarily, it is the mother who be¬ comes impure. Father is purified by the touch of water alone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

In birth or death impurity lasts for ten days, O bird.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

By giving food to the hungry and the indigent, the parents get rid of impurity—the sages have declared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

A person distanced by seven or eight generation or he who has not undergone a Sacrament incurs no impurity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

For men who have lost life for the sake of a brahmin, a cow, a woman or in the battlefield, infirmity lasts only for a single night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

When udras, following a corpse, reach a pond or a stream or a reservoir, they should return home. While return¬ ing they should be glanced at by a brahmin which is enough for their purification. This is what the Vedic scholars say.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

With an earthen vessel and water mixed with sesame, and finally with earth, a man becomes pure by bathing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He should give a gift to the assembly, and gold and a cow and bull to a brahmin; a kshatriya should give double, and a vaishya triple;

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

a shudra should give four times as much wealth to a brahmin. In this order the four classes are purified.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

For a child dying in the seventh or eighth year before the domestic sacraments, the period of impurity is reckoned in days according to the number of years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

For those who die for the sake of brahmins, for women, in cattle raids, or in battle, impurity lasts one night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

No ill befalls brahmins in auspicious rites, nor the best of men who perform the last rites of a helpless dead person;

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

no ill befalls those who assist a brahmin; for them purification is declared to be immediate, by plunging into water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

When shudras have finished and come to the water's edge, they should then be looked upon by a brahmin — so say the knowers of the Veda.