Shloka 19

Prāyaścitta and Contextual Non-Culpability (प्रायश्चित्त-निमित्त-अदोषवाद)

Devanagari script

भूमिप्रदानं कुर्याद्‌ यः सुरां पीत्वा विमत्सर: । पुनर्न च पिबेद्‌ राजन्‌ संस्कृत: स च शुद्ध्यति,राजन! जो मदिरा पी लेनेपर ईर्ष्या-द्रेषसे रहित हो भूमिदान करे और फिर कभी उसे न पीये, वह संस्कार करनेके पश्चात्‌ शुद्ध होता है

Transliteration

bhūmipradānaṁ kuryād yaḥ surāṁ pītvā vimatsaraḥ | punar na ca pibed rājan saṁskṛtaḥ sa ca śuddhyati ||

Translation

Vyāsa said: “O King, if a person who has drunk intoxicating liquor, free from envy and malice, performs the gift of land and thereafter never drinks again, then—after undergoing the prescribed purificatory rite—he becomes purified.”

Word by Word

भूमि-प्रदानम्gift of land

कुर्यात्should do / should perform

यःwho

सुराम्liquor

पीत्वाhaving drunk

विमत्सरःfree from envy/jealousy

पुनःagain

नnot

चand

पिबेत्should drink

राजन्O king

संस्कृतःpurified/ritually processed

सःhe

चand

शुद्ध्यतिbecomes purified

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

rājan (the king addressed)

surā (liquor)

bhūmi (land)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes