Shloka 28

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

Devanagari script

स्तेयी सुवर्णस्तेयी च गुरुतल्परतः सदा मद्यपो वृषलीसक्तः परदारविधर्षकः

Transliteration

steyī suvarṇasteyī ca gurutalparataḥ sadā madyapo vṛṣalīsaktaḥ paradāravidharṣakaḥ

Translation

Le voleur; le voleur d’or; celui qui, sans cesse, profane le lit du guru; le buveur d’enivrants; celui qui s’attache à une femme de conduite impure; et celui qui outrage l’épouse d’autrui — un tel homme chemine dans un adharma funeste et approfondit les liens (pāśa) qui tiennent le paśu (l’âme) loin de Pati, Śiva.

Word by Word

• स्तेयी: thief

• सुवर्णस्तेयी: stealer of gold

• च: and

• गुरुतल्परतः: devoted to (the sin of) violating the guru’s bed (sexual transgression with the guru’s wife)

• सदा: always

• मद्यपः: drinker of liquor/intoxicants

• वृषलीसक्तः: attached to a vṛṣalī (woman of degraded/impure conduct)

• परदारविधर्षकः: violator/abuser of another man’s wife

Speaker

Suta Goswami