Shloka 28
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
न जुहोत्युचिते काले न स्नाति न ददाति च पितृदेवार्चनाद्धीनः स षण्ढः परिगीयते
na juhotyucite kāle na snāti na dadāti ca pitṛdevārcanāddhīnaḥ sa ṣaṇḍhaḥ parigīyate
जो उचित समय पर हवन नहीं करता, स्नान नहीं करता और दान नहीं देता; तथा पितृ-देव-पूजन से रहित रहता है, वह ‘षण्ढ’ कहलाता है।
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FAQs
Dharma is framed as sustained by regular, time-bound disciplines—worship, cleanliness, and generosity. Neglect of these is portrayed not merely as a private lapse but as a loss of religious competence and social-spiritual reliability.
It functions as ācāra/dharma instruction rather than one of the five classical marks; Purāṇas frequently embed such normative lists alongside narrative sections.
The term ‘ṣaṇḍha’ is symbolic rhetoric: a person who fails in the ‘productive’ duties of yajña, dāna, and worship is depicted as spiritually sterile—unable to generate merit (puṇya) or uphold lineage obligations (pitṛ-ṛṇa).