Shloka 3
Strī-dharma: Śiva’s Inquiry, Umā’s Consultation, and Gaṅgā’s Instruction
असम्भाष्या भवन्त्येते पितृणां नाज संशय: । देवता: पितरश्रैषां नाभिनन्दन्ति तद्धवि:
asambhāṣyā bhavanty ete pitṝṇāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ | devatāḥ pitaraś caiva nābhinandanti tad haviḥ ||
Logaśa said: “There is no doubt of this—such people become unfit to be addressed in the eyes of the ancestors. The gods and the forefathers do not accept with honor the oblation (havis) offered by one who has fallen into such conduct.”
लोगश उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral and ritual life are linked: when a person’s conduct makes them disgraceful before the ancestors, even their sacrificial offerings lose sanctity and are not honored by gods and Pitṛs.
The speaker, Logaśa, is warning that certain wrongful behaviors render a person socially and spiritually unworthy; as a consequence, their ritual oblations (havis) fail to gain approval from divine and ancestral recipients.