Shloka 12

Aghora-Mantra Japa: Graded Expiations, Pañcagavya Purification, and Homa for Mahāpātaka-Nivṛtti

Devanagari script

अहुताशी सहस्रेण अदाता च विशुध्यति ब्राह्मणस्वापहर्ता च स्वर्णस्तेयी नराधमः

Transliteration

ahutāśī sahasreṇa adātā ca viśudhyati brāhmaṇasvāpahartā ca svarṇasteyī narādhamaḥ

Translation

Même celui qui se nourrit d’une nourriture prise sans offrande au feu sacré est purifié par mille actes d’expiation; de même celui qui retient l’aumône. Mais celui qui vole les biens d’un brāhmaṇa, et le voleur d’or—un tel homme est le plus vil des humains.

Word by Word

• अहुताशी: one who eats without making offerings (unoffered-eater)

• सहस्रेण: by a thousand (times/acts)

• अदाता: one who does not give (withholds dāna)

• च: and

• विशुध्यति: becomes purified

• ब्राह्मणस्वापहर्ता: one who steals a Brahmin’s property/wealth

• च: and

• स्वर्णस्तेयी: a stealer of gold

• नराधमः: the vilest/lowest of men

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)