Shloka 22

Devanagari script

ये त्विह वै राजन्या राजपुरुषा वा अपाखण्डा धर्मसेतून् भिन्दन्ति ते सम्परेत्य वैतरण्यां निपतन्ति भिन्नमर्यादास्तस्यां निरयपरिखाभूतायां नद्यां यादोगणैरितस्ततो भक्ष्यमाणा आत्मना न वियुज्यमानाश्चासुभिरुह्यमाना: स्वाघेन कर्मपाकमनुस्मरन्तो विण्मूत्रपूयशोणितकेशनखास्थिमेदोमांसवसावाहिन्यामुपतप्यन्ते ॥ २२ ॥

Transliteration

ye tv iha vai rājanyā rāja-puruṣā vā apākhaṇḍā dharma-setūn bhindanti te samparetya vaitaraṇyāṁ nipatanti bhinna-maryādās tasyāṁ niraya-parikhā-bhūtāyāṁ nadyāṁ yādo-gaṇair itas tato bhakṣyamāṇā ātmanā na viyujyamānāś cāsubhir uhyamānāḥ svāghena karma-pākam anusmaranto viṇ-mūtra-pūya-śoṇita-keśa-nakhāsthi-medo-māṁsa-vasā-vāhinyām upatapyante.

Translation

A person who is born into a responsible family... but who neglects to execute his prescribed duties... falls down at the time of death into the river of hell known as Vaitaraṇī... full of stool, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, marrow, flesh and fat.

Synonyms

येthose who

तुbut/indeed

इहhere

वैindeed

राजन्याःkṣatriyas (royal class)

राजपुरुषाःking’s men/officials

वाor

अपाखण्डाःhypocrites/pretenders (as non-deviant outwardly)

धर्मसेतून्boundaries/bridges of dharma (moral restraints)

भिन्दन्तिthey break

तेthey

सम्परेत्यhaving died / after departing

वैतरण्याम्in the Vaitaraṇī (river)

निपतन्तिthey fall

भिन्नमर्यादाःthose whose boundaries are broken (transgressors)

तस्याम्in that (river)

निरयपरिखाभूतायाम्which has become a hellish moat

नद्याम्in the river

यादोगणैःby groups of aquatic creatures

इतस्from here/this side

ततःfrom there/that side

भक्ष्यमाणाःbeing eaten

आत्मनाby themselves / in their own person

नnot

वियुज्यमानाःnot being separated

चand

असुभिःby the life-breaths

उह्यमानाःbeing carried along

स्वाघेनby their own sin

कर्मपाकम्the ripening/result of karma

अनुस्मरन्तःremembering

विण्मूत्रपूयशोणितकेशनखास्थिमेदोमांसवसावाहिन्याम्in (the river) carrying feces, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, fat, flesh, and grease

उपतप्यन्तेthey suffer/are tormented