Adhyaya 133: Expiations for ritual-time impurity and the offense of defecation/urination in a sacred context

Verse 1

अथ पूजासामयिकगुदरवपुरीषोत्सर्जनयोः प्रायश्चित्तम् ॥ श्रीवराह उवाच ॥ स्पृशमानेन मां भूमे वातकर्म प्रमुच्यते ॥ एवं च पुरुषो युक्तो वायुपीडितमानसः ॥

Now follows the expiation concerning faults related to worship at the appointed time, abdominal disorder, and the discharge of feces. Śrī Varāha said: “O Earth, by touching me one is released from the bodily function associated with vāta; and thus the person whose mind is afflicted by wind (vāyu) becomes properly regulated.”

Verse 2

मक्षिका पञ्च वर्षाणि त्रीणि वर्षाणि मूषकः ॥ श्वा चैव त्रीणि वर्षाणि कूर्मो वै जायते नव ॥

(One becomes) a fly for five years; a mouse for three years; a dog for three years; and indeed is born as a tortoise for nine years.

Verse 3

एष वै तापनं देवि मोहनं मम सांप्रतम् ॥ यो वै शास्त्रं विजानाति मम कर्मपरायणः ॥

O Goddess, this is indeed my present teaching, which both chastens and deludes: whoever truly understands the śāstra and is devoted to my prescribed discipline of action.

Verse 4

श्रुत्वा वाक्यं हृषीकेशं प्रत्युवाच वसुंधरा ॥ धरण्युवाच ॥ अतुलं लभते पापं तव कर्मपरायणः ॥

Having heard the words of Hṛṣīkeśa, Vasundharā replied. The Earth said: “One devoted to your prescribed discipline of action incurs immeasurable wrongdoing.”

Verse 5

तस्य देव सुखार्थाय विशुद्धिं वक्तुमर्हसि ॥ श्रीवराह उवाच ॥ शृणु कार्त्स्न्येन मे देवि कथ्यमानं मया अनघे ॥

For that person’s well-being, O Deva, you should explain the means of purification. Śrī Varāha said: “Listen in full, O Goddess—O blameless one—to what I am about to state.”

Verse 6

अपराधमिमं कृत्वा सन्तरेद्येन कर्मणा ॥ पावकेन दिनं त्रीणि नक्तानि च पुनस्त्रयः ॥

Having committed this offence, by what practice should one cross beyond it?—by means of fire: three days, and again three nights.

Verse 7

कर्म चैवं ततः कृत्वा स च मे नापराध्यति ॥ सर्वसङ्गं परित्यज्य मम लोकं स गच्छति ॥

Having then performed the practice in this way, that person does not further offend against my rule; abandoning all attachments, he goes to my realm.

Verse 8

एतत्ते कथितं भद्रे महाकर्मापराधिनः ॥ दोषं चैव गुणं चैव यत्त्वया परिपृच्छितम् ॥

O noble one, this has been explained to you concerning those who commit a grave offence in practice: both the fault and the merit, just as you asked.

Verse 9

शृणु तत्त्वेन मे भूमे कथ्यमानं मया अनघे ॥ पुरीषं मुच्यते यस्तु मम कर्म समाचरन् ॥

Listen in truth, O Earth—O blameless one—to what I state: one who performs my prescribed practice becomes freed from impurity (lit. excrement).

Verse 10

प्रायश्चित्तं वदाम्यत्र येन मुच्येत किल्बिषात् ॥ मम कर्मपरिभ्रष्टो विह्वलेनान्तरात्मना ॥

Here I shall state the expiation by which one may be freed from transgression: for one who has fallen away from my prescribed discipline, with an inward self distressed.

Verse 11

एकां जलमयीं शय्यामेकामाकाशशायिनीम् ॥ एवं कृत्वा विधानं तु सोऽपराधात्प्रमुच्यते ॥

One should undertake one couch made of water and one observance of lying in open space; having performed the procedure thus, that person is fully released from the offence.

Verse 12

एतत्ते कथितं भद्रे पुरीषं यः समुत्सृजेत् ॥ मद्भक्तेषु विशालाक्षि अपराधविनिश्चयः ॥

O noble one, this has been explained to you: concerning one who would cast filth (impurity) upon my devotees—O wide-eyed one—this is the determination regarding the offence.

Verse 13

दिव्यवर्षसहस्रं तु रौरवे नरके वसेत् ॥ पुरीषं भक्षयेत्तत्र मम कर्मपरायणः ॥

For a thousand divine years he shall dwell in the Raurava hell; there he shall eat excrement—even one who is otherwise devoted to my rites.