Shloka 175

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

तस्य क्रोधेन दह्यन्ते आयुःश्रीज्ञानसत्क्रियाः तत्क्रोधं ये करिष्यन्ति तेषां यज्ञाश् च निष्फलाः

Transliteration

tasya krodhena dahyante āyuḥśrījñānasatkriyāḥ tatkrodhaṃ ye kariṣyanti teṣāṃ yajñāś ca niṣphalāḥ

Translation

Par sa colère sont consumées la longévité, la prospérité, la connaissance véritable et la conduite juste. Et ceux qui provoquent cette colère, leurs rites sacrificiels (yajña) deviennent eux aussi sans fruit.

Word by Word

• tasya: his

• krodhena: by anger/through wrath

• dahyante: are burned up/consumed

• āyuḥ: lifespan/longevity

• śrī: prosperity/fortune

• jñāna: true knowledge

• sat-kriyāḥ: good acts/righteous observances

• tat-krodham: that anger

• ye: those who

• kariṣyanti: will cause/bring about/provoke

• teṣām: of them

• yajñāḥ: Vedic sacrifices/rites

• ca: and

• niṣphalāḥ: fruitless/without result

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana discourse to the sages of Naimisharanya; verse framed as a general Shaiva warning within the chapter’s teaching)