Shloka 41
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
पुंश्चल्याः कृतवैरस्य बालस्य पतितस्य च ।
देवालयं चैत्यतरुं तथैव च चतुष्पथम् ॥
puṃścalyāḥ kṛtavairasya bālasya patitasya ca |
devālayaṃ caityataruṃ tathaiva ca catuṣpatham ||
Il faut être prudent et garder l’espace convenable à l’égard de la femme débauchée, de celui qui s’est fait ennemi, de l’enfant et du déchu; de même, près d’un temple, d’un arbre sacré et à un carrefour, on doit demeurer respectueux et éviter toute inconvenance.
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FAQs
Dharma includes situational awareness: avoid needless entanglement with volatile relationships and maintain reverence and restraint in liminal or sacred spaces (temple, sacred tree, crossroads).
Ācāra-dharma instruction; not a pañcalakṣaṇa narrative unit.
Crossroads and shrine-trees are ‘threshold’ zones; the instruction implies guarding one’s conduct at boundaries—social, psychological, and sacred—where distractions and impurities easily arise.