Shloka 50

Adhyaya 89: शौचाचारलक्षणम् — सदाचार, भैक्ष्यचर्या, प्रायश्चित्त, द्रव्यशुद्धि, आशौच-निर्णय

Devanagari script

च्लेअनिन्ग् ओफ़् wअतेर् उद्धृतानुष्णफेनाभिः पूताभिर् वस्त्रचक्षुषा अद्भिः समाचरेत्सर्वं वर्जयेत्कलुषोदकम्

Transliteration

cleaning of water uddhṛtānuṣṇaphenābhiḥ pūtābhir vastracakṣuṣā adbhiḥ samācaretsarvaṃ varjayetkaluṣodakam

Translation

Que tous les rites soient accomplis avec une eau purifiée—légèrement tiédie, dont on a ôté l’écume, puis filtrée à travers un tissu—et que l’on évite l’eau trouble ou impure.

Word by Word

• uddhṛta: removed/taken out

• anuṣṇa: slightly warm

• phena: foam

• -ābhiḥ: with/by

• pūtābhiḥ: purified

• vastra: cloth

• cakṣuṣā: as the ‘eye’/as a filter (i.e., by straining)

• adbhiḥ: with waters

• samācaret: should perform/should duly carry out

• sarvam: all (rites)

• varjayet: should avoid

• kaluṣa-udakam: muddy/turbid water

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-puja injunctions to the sages of Naimisharanya)