Shloka 25

Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions

Sanskrit

बहिर्बलिप्रदानाच्च सोमाम्बुपरिकीर्तनात् ।

परदारपहद्रव्यहरणादिषु मानवान् ॥

Transliteration

bahir bali-pradānāc ca somāmbu-parikīrtanāt / para-dāra-paha-dravya-haraṇādiṣu mānavān

Translation

وكذلك بتقديم البَلي (قرابين الاسترضاء) خارجًا، وبالتلاوة أو ذكر ماء السُّوما؛ (ويُكفّ) الناس عن أفعالٍ مثل مقاربة زوجة الغير وسرقة مال الغير، وما شابه ذلك من المخالفات.

Word by Word

• bahis: outside
• bahis: Deśa-adhikaraṇa (देशाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: bahis (अव्यय)
• Form: Indeclinable; adverb (क्रियाविशेषण) “outside”

• bali-pradānāt: from offering oblations
• bali-pradānāt: Hetu/Apādāna (हेतु/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bali (प्रातिपदिक) + pradāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: baler pradānam); Neuter, Ablative (5th), Singular

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Conjunction (समुच्चयबोधक)

• soma-ambu-parikīrtanāt: from reciting (names of) soma and water
• soma-ambu-parikīrtanāt: Hetu/Apādāna (हेतु/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: soma (प्रातिपदिक) + ambu (प्रातिपदिक) + parikīrtana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (dvandva-like coordination inside as a list: soma, ambu; then ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa: (soma-ambuyoḥ) parikīrtanam); Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• para-dāra-apaha-dravya-haraṇa-ādiṣu: in (acts like) abducting another’s wife, stealing property, etc.
• para-dāra-apaha-dravya-haraṇa-ādiṣu: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: para (प्रातिपदिक) + dāra (प्रातिपदिक) + apaha (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक; apa-√hṛ (धातु)) + dravya (प्रातिपदिक) + haraṇa (प्रातिपदिक; √hṛ (धातु)) + ādi (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Enumerative compound (समाहार-द्वन्द्व/सूचीसमास) with ādi “etc.”; Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Plural (बहुवचन)

• mānavān: men/humans
• mānavān: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Plural

Speakers

• Dharmic instruction

Verse Rasa

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Primary Deities

• Soma

Key Themes

• Dharma
• Ritual propitiation
• Social ethics
• Non-stealing
• Sexual ethics

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Outer rites (bali, recitation) are paired with inner moral restraint: protection is incomplete without preventing core breaches of dharma such as theft and sexual misconduct.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Ancillary dharma/ritual guidance; not a pancalakṣaṇa narrative unit.

What is the esoteric significance?

‘Outside bali’ can indicate offering disruptive forces a designated place (channeling rather than suppressing); Soma-water remembrance suggests cooling, clarifying consciousness that counters craving-driven transgression.