Shloka 38
Āvāhāryaka-Śrāddha: Qualifications of Recipients, Paṅkti-Pāvana, and Exclusions
मद्यपो वृषलीसक्तो वीरहा दिधिषूपतिः / आगारदाही कुण्डाशी सोमविक्रयिणो द्विजाः
madyapo vṛṣalīsakto vīrahā didhiṣūpatiḥ / āgāradāhī kuṇḍāśī somavikrayiṇo dvijāḥ
जो द्विज मद्यपान करता है, शूद्रा-स्त्री में आसक्त रहता है, वीर-हत्या करता है, जीवित पति वाली स्त्री को पत्नी बनाता है, घरों में आग लगाता है, कुण्ड (अग्नि) के लिए अयोग्य अन्न खाता है, और सोम का विक्रय करता है—ऐसे द्विज पतित माने गए हैं।
Sūta (narrating the Kurma Purana’s dharma-teaching to the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya)
Primary Rasa: raudra
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
Indirectly: it frames moral and ritual purity as prerequisites for clarity of mind (śuddhi), without which knowledge of the Self and higher yoga cannot stabilize.
No technique is taught directly; the verse supplies the yama-like ethical restraints and sacrificial discipline that the Kurma Purana treats as the groundwork for Pashupata-oriented sādhanā and inner purification.
By emphasizing dharma as a shared foundation for liberation: in the Kurma Purana’s Shaiva-Vaishnava synthesis, devotion and yoga (whether framed through Śiva or Nārāyaṇa) rest on the same ethical restraints and purity.