Shloka 38

मुक्तयतिदेहसंस्काररहस्यं — The Esoteric Rites for the Bodies of Liberated Ascetics

Devanagari script

तद्ग्रामवासिनस्तेऽपि भवेयुर्भृशदुःखिनः । तद्दोषपरिहाराय विधानं चैवमुच्यते

Transliteration

tadgrāmavāsinaste'pi bhaveyurbhṛśaduḥkhinaḥ | taddoṣaparihārāya vidhānaṃ caivamucyate

Translation

Sogar die Bewohner jenes Dorfes würden von großem Leid geplagt werden. Daher wird zur Beseitigung dieses Fehlers das folgende vorgeschriebene Verfahren dargelegt.

Word by Word

• tadgrāmavāsinaḥ: residents of that village
• tadgrāmavāsinaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad-grāma-vāsin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural

• te: they
• te: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural

• api: also
• api: null
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: Particle

• bhaveyuḥ: they would be
• bhaveyuḥ: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (धातु)
• Form: Vidhilin (Potential), Parasmaipada, 3rd Person, Plural

• bhṛśaduḥkhinaḥ: very miserable
• bhṛśaduḥkhinaḥ: Viseshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bhṛśa-duḥkhin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural

• taddoṣaparihārāya: for the removal of that fault
• taddoṣaparihārāya: Prayojana (Purpose/प्रयोजन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad-doṣa-parihāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Dative (4th/चतुर्थी), Singular

• vidhānam: procedure
• vidhānam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vidhāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular

• ca: and
• ca: null
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Conjunction

• evam: thus
• evam: null
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: evam (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb

• ucyate: is said
• ucyate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vac (धातु)
• Form: Lat (Present), Karmani (Passive), 3rd Person, Singular

Speaker

Unspecified in the isolated verse (narrative voice continues the instruction)

Shaiva Theology

Tattva Level: pasha

Jyotirlinga Context

Sthala Purana: Not a Jyotirliṅga episode; the verse frames a communal consequence of ritual/ethical doṣa and introduces a prāyaścitta-vidhi to avert suffering.

Significance: General teaching: removal of doṣa restores śānti and social well-being; aligns with Śaiva Siddhānta emphasis on karma-mala and its ritual remediation.

FAQs

How does this verse relate individual wrongdoing to communal suffering in Purāṇic thought?

The verse assumes that a serious doṣa (fault) can generate repercussions extending beyond the individual to the wider community, reflecting a Purāṇic moral-ritual ecology in which social and cosmic order (dharma) is shared; hence a vidhāna (prescribed remedy) is taught to restore balance through expiation and corrective practice.