Shloka 21

यतिप्रायश्चित्तविधानम्

Ascetic Atonements and Discipline

Devanagari script

अभोज्यानि यतीनां तु प्रत्यक्षलवणानि च एकैकातिक्रमात्तेषां प्रायश्चित्तं विधीयते

Transliteration

abhojyāni yatīnāṃ tu pratyakṣalavaṇāni ca ekaikātikramātteṣāṃ prāyaścittaṃ vidhīyate

Translation

Pour les yatis, certains aliments sont interdits, surtout ceux où le sel est nettement perceptible. S’ils transgressent l’une de ces restrictions, une expiation (prāyaścitta) appropriée est prescrite.

Word by Word

• abhojyāni: foods that must not be eaten/forbidden foods

• yatīnām: of renunciants (ascetics)

• tu: indeed/and

• pratyakṣa-lavaṇāni: having salt that is directly perceptible (openly salted)

• ca: also

• ekaika-atikramāt: by violating even one (rule) individually

• teṣām: for them/of those (ascetics)

• prāyaścittam: expiation/atonement

• vidhīyate: is enjoined/is prescribed

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the dharma and prāyaścitta rules to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)