Shloka 4
Adhyaya 28 — Alarka Inquires into Varna and Ashrama Dharma; Madalasa Defines the Fourfold Duties
याजनाध्यापने शुद्धे तथा पूतप्रतिग्रहः ।
एषा सम्यक् समाख्याता त्रिविधा चास्य जीविका ॥
yājanādhyāpane śuddhe tathā pūtapratigrahaḥ / eṣā samyak samākhyātā trividhā cāsya jīvikā
অন্যৰ বাবে যজ্ঞ কৰোৱা, শুদ্ধতাৰে অধ্যাপন কৰা, আৰু কেৱল শুদ্ধ (যথোচিত) দান গ্ৰহণ কৰা—এই তিনিটাকেই তাৰ ত্ৰিবিধ জীৱিকা বুলি যথার্থ কোৱা হৈছে।
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FAQs
Means of livelihood are moral choices: even permitted occupations must be ‘śuddha’ (ethically and ritually clean), and acceptance of gifts requires discernment.
Dharma instruction embedded in dialogue; not a cosmological/genealogical pancalakṣaṇa element.
‘Purified acceptance’ implies that what one takes into one’s life shapes one’s mind; the verse encodes a discipline of intake—material, social, and psychological.