Shloka 6

उपलेपनादिकथनम्

Vastraputa-jala, Ahimsa, and Conduct in Shiva Worship

Devanagari script

हिंसा सदा गृहस्थानां तस्माद्धिंसां विवर्जयेत् अहिंसेयं परो धर्मः सर्वेषां प्राणिनां द्विजाः

Transliteration

hiṃsā sadā gṛhasthānāṃ tasmāddhiṃsāṃ vivarjayet ahiṃseyaṃ paro dharmaḥ sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ dvijāḥ

Translation

家住者の生活には常に害が生じやすい。ゆえに害を捨てよ。アヒンサー（不殺生・不害）は一切の生類にとって最上のダルマである、二度生まれの者よ。これによりパシュはパーシャ（束縛）をゆるめ、パティたるシヴァの恩寵にかなう器となる。

Word by Word

• hiṃsā: violence

• sadā: always/continually

• gṛhasthānām: of householders

• tasmāt: therefore

• hiṃsām: violence

• vivarjayet: should avoid/renounce

• ahiṃsā: non-violence

• iyam: this

• paraḥ: supreme/highest

• dharmaḥ: righteous law/duty

• sarveṣām: of all

• prāṇinām: living beings

• dvijāḥ: O twice-born (Brāhmaṇa/Kṣatriya/Vaiśya)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating dharma-teachings within the Linga Purana discourse)