Shloka 18

Agastya-Māhātmya and Vasiṣṭha’s Protection of the Ādityas

Khalina Daityas; Sarayū Etiology

Devanagari script

व्याधिं कुलक्षयं चैव क्षिप्रं प्राप्रोति ब्राह्मण: । नगरीरक्षिणो भुड्क्ते श्वपचप्रवणो भवेत्‌,जो ब्राह्मण ऐसे अन्नको भोजन करता है, वह रोगी होता है और शीघ्र ही उसके कुलका संहार हो जाता है। जो नगररक्षकका अन्न खाता है, वह चण्डालके समान होता है

Transliteration

vyādhiṁ kulakṣayaṁ caiva kṣipraṁ prāpnoti brāhmaṇaḥ | nagarīrakṣiṇo bhuṅkte śvapacapravaṇo bhavet ||

Translation

Bhishma said: “A Brahmin who eats such food quickly falls into disease and soon brings ruin upon his lineage. One who partakes of the food of a city-guard becomes inclined toward the condition of a śvapaca—treated as an outcaste—through the moral taint of that livelihood.”

Word by Word

व्याधिम्disease

कुलक्षयम्destruction of the family/lineage

चand

एवindeed/just

क्षिप्रम्quickly

प्राप्नोतिattains/gets

ब्राह्मणःa Brahmin

नगरीरक्षिणःof the city-guard/protector

भुङ्क्तेeats/partakes

श्वपचप्रवणःinclined toward/like a dog-cooker (outcaste)

भवेत्would become

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa)

City-guard (nagarīrakṣiṇa)

Śvapaca (outcaste/caṇḍāla-like)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes