Shloka 65

Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller

Devanagari script

कुपितः कुलनाशाय ईश्वरो रोगवृद्धये भानुर्वै यतते तस्य नरस्य क्षणदाचर

Transliteration

kupitaḥ kulanāśāya īśvaro rogavṛddhaye bhānurvai yatate tasya narasya kṣaṇadācara

Translation

Wenn er erzürnt ist, bemüht sich der herrische Sonnengott (Bhānu), die Sippe jenes Mannes zu vernichten und seine Krankheiten zu mehren, o Kṣaṇadācara.

Word by Word

• kupitaḥ: angered
• kupitaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of bhānuḥ/īśvaraḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kupita (कृदन्त, √kup/कुप् past passive participle)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; PPP used adjectivally

• kula-nāśāya: for the destruction of (his) family/lineage
• kula-nāśāya: Prayojana (प्रयोजन, purpose)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kula (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Caturthī (4th/dative), Ekavacana; samāsa: kulanāśa = kulasya nāśaḥ

• īśvaraḥ: the Lord
• īśvaraḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: īśvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

• roga-vṛddhaye: for the increase of disease
• roga-vṛddhaye: Prayojana (प्रयोजन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: roga (प्रातिपदिक) + vṛddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Caturthī, Ekavacana; samāsa: rogavṛddhi = rogasya vṛddhiḥ

• bhānuḥ: the Sun (Bhānu)
• bhānuḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhānu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; nipāta (emphatic particle)

• yatate: strives / exerts (himself)
• yatate: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √yat (यत्)
• Form: Laṭ (present), Prathama-puruṣa, Ekavacana; ātmanepada

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (तद् सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga (sarvanāma), Ṣaṣṭhī, Ekavacana

• narasya: of the man
• narasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Ṣaṣṭhī, Ekavacana

• kṣaṇa-dā: O night (giver of moments)
• kṣaṇa-dā: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṣaṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + dā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Sambodhana (8th/vocative), Ekavacana; bahuvrīhi: kṣaṇadā = kṣaṇaṃ dadāti iti / kṣaṇān dadāti iti (night, ‘giver of moments’)

• cara: move on / proceed
• cara: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √car (चर्)
• Form: Loṭ (लोट्, imperative), Madhyama-puruṣa (2nd person), Ekavacana; parasmaipada

Speakers

• Not stated in the provided excerpt (commonly Pulastya → Nārada framework in Vāmana Purāṇa; uncertain here)

Primary Deities

• Surya (Bhānu)

Key Themes

• Karmic consequence
• Social continuity (kula) and dharma
• Disease as adharma-fruit
• Sūrya as regulator of ṛta

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The text links personal conduct to both bodily wellbeing and family continuity: adharma is said to rebound as social instability (kula-kṣaya) and physical affliction (roga).

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

Again, dharma-upadeśa (ācāra) rather than cosmological creation cycles; it functions as normative guidance within Purāṇic instruction.

What is the symbolic significance?

Lineage and health stand for ‘life-supporting order’; Sūrya’s punitive role symbolizes that violations of ordained duty are treated as violations of cosmic rhythm, yielding visible decay in society and the body.