Shloka 62

Matsya Purana — Inquiry into Yayāti’s Story and the Kacha–Devayānī Episode

Devanagari script

*शुक्र उवाच यो ब्राह्मणो ऽद्यप्रभृतीह कश्चिन् मोहात्सुरां पास्यति मन्दबुद्धिः अपेतधर्मा ब्रह्महा चैव स स्यादस्मिंल्लोके गर्हितः स्यात्परे च //

Transliteration

*śukra uvāca yo brāhmaṇo 'dyaprabhṛtīha kaścin mohātsurāṃ pāsyati mandabuddhiḥ apetadharmā brahmahā caiva sa syādasmiṃlloke garhitaḥ syātpare ca //

Translation

Śukra said: From this day onward, any brāhmaṇa who, through delusion and dull understanding, drinks surā (liquor) will fall away from dharma and become as a slayer of a brāhmaṇa; he will be condemned in this world and in the next.