Shloka 16

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

Devanagari script

उपांशु यच्चतुर्धा वै वाचिकं चाष्टधा जपेत् पातकादर्धमेव स्याद् उपपातकिनां स्मृतम्

Transliteration

upāṃśu yaccaturdhā vai vācikaṃ cāṣṭadhā japet pātakādardhameva syād upapātakināṃ smṛtam

Translation

Qu’on répète le mantra à voix basse (upāṁśu) quatre fois, et à voix haute (vācika) huit fois. Il est enseigné que, pour ceux qui portent des fautes secondaires (upapātaka), le fruit n’est que la moitié de celui obtenu pour les fautes graves (pātaka).

Word by Word

• उपांशु (upāṁśu): in a low voice/whispered

• यत् (yat): which/that

• चतुर्धा (caturdhā): fourfold/in four measures

• वै (vai): indeed

• वाचिकम् (vācikam): spoken aloud/verbal

• च (ca): and

• अष्टधा (aṣṭadhā): eightfold/in eight measures

• जपेत् (japet): one should recite (japa)

• पातकात् (pātakāt): than/with respect to grave sin

• अर्धम् (ardham): half

• एव (eva): only/indeed

• स्यात् (syāt): would be/is

• उपपातकिनाम् (upapātakinām): of those with secondary sins

• स्मृतम् (smṛtam): is remembered/declared in tradition

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating traditional injunctions within the Linga Purana discourse to the sages of Naimisharanya)