Shloka 117

Adhyaya 89: शौचाचारलक्षणम् — सदाचार, भैक्ष्यचर्या, प्रायश्चित्त, द्रव्यशुद्धि, आशौच-निर्णय

Devanagari script

जनयत्यङ्गना यस्मान् न गच्छेत्सर्वयत्नतः चतुर्दश्यां यदा गच्छेत् सा पुत्रजननी भवेत्

Transliteration

janayatyaṅganā yasmān na gacchetsarvayatnataḥ caturdaśyāṃ yadā gacchet sā putrajananī bhavet

Translation

それが特定の結果を生むと説かれるゆえ、女はあらゆる努力をもってその不吉な時の交合を避けるべきである。だが第十四の月日に交われば、彼女は男児を産む母となる。

Word by Word

• janayati: produces, begets

• aṅganā: a woman

• yasmāt: because, since

• na: not

• gacchet: should go/engage (in union)

• sarva-yatnataḥ: with all effort

• caturdaśyām: on the fourteenth lunar day (Chaturdaśī)

• yadā: when

• gacchet: engages/goes

• sā: she

• putra-jananī: mother of a son, son-begetter

• bhavet: becomes

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating traditional dharma/vrata-related guidance within the Linga Purana discourse)