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Prescriptions for Expiation of Offences: Red/Black Garments, Improper Touch in Darkness, Impure Leftovers, Eating Boar-Meat, and Consuming Jālapāda
एतत्ते कथितं भूमे रक्तवस्त्रविभूषिते ॥ प्रायश्चित्तं महाभागे सर्वसंसारमोक्षणम् ॥
etat te kathitaṃ bhūme raktavastravibhūṣite || prāyaścittaṃ mahābhāge sarvasaṃsāramokṣaṇam ||
धरती, तूने रेड कपड़े पहन लिए हैं, मैंने तुझे यह बात बता दी है। यह प्रायश्चित बहुत बड़ा है, इससे संसार के बंधन से छुटकारा मिलता है।
Varāha
It shows how expiation is rhetorically elevated in Purāṇic literature, linking corrective rites to broader liberation language.
No geographic location is named; the verse addresses ‘Bhūmi’ (Earth) as interlocutor.
The passage emphasizes that structured remediation is presented as a pathway to moral and existential release.
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