Shloka 5
दानशील-समाचारः, सत्कारः, अहिंसा च
Umā–Maheśvara Saṃvāda
इदं चैवापरं गुह्ुमप्रशस्तं निबोधत । अग्नेस्तु वृषलो नेता हविर्मूढाश्व योषित:
idaṃ caivāparaṃ guhyaṃ apraśastaṃ nibodhata | agnestu vṛṣalo netā havirmūḍhāśva yoṣitaḥ ||
Dhaumya dit : Comprends maintenant un autre point secret — non pas louable, mais blâmable. Si un śūdra devient le porteur du feu sacré de l’agnihotra d’un dvija, le transportant d’un lieu à un autre, et si des femmes ignorantes portent le havis destiné au sacrifice, alors celui qui tient une telle conduite pour du « dharma » se trouve souillé par l’adharma. Les feux sacrés s’irritent contre lui, et l’on dit qu’il renaît dans un sein śūdra.
धौग्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns that certain ritual roles—specifically transporting the sacred sacrificial fire and carrying the oblation—are considered improper when performed by those deemed ritually unqualified in this normative framework. Treating such impropriety as ‘dharma’ is said to lead to adharma and adverse karmic consequences, symbolized by the anger of the sacred fires and an inferior rebirth.
Dhaugya continues an instruction on dharma by introducing a ‘secret’ but negative example (apraśasta). He lists actions regarded as blameworthy in sacrificial procedure—having a Śūdra transport the ritual fire and having ignorant women carry the havis—and states the moral-ritual consequence for endorsing such acts as righteous.