Shloka 21

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

Devanagari script

दधिभक्षाः पयोभक्षा ये चान्ये जीवक्षीणकाः सर्वे ते भैक्ष्यभक्षस्य कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम्

Transliteration

dadhibhakṣāḥ payobhakṣā ye cānye jīvakṣīṇakāḥ sarve te bhaikṣyabhakṣasya kalāṃ nārhanti ṣoḍaśīm

Translation

凝乳を食とする者、乳を食とする者、また命をすり減らす苦行に励む他の者たち—彼らは皆、托鉢により生きる者の功徳の十六分の一にすら及ばない。この乞食（bhikṣā）に基づく制御こそ、主宰パティたるシヴァの恩寵のもとで、パシュ（縛られた個我）を最もよく調伏し、パーシャ（束縛）をゆるめる。

Word by Word

• दधि-भक्षाः: curd-eaters

• पयः-भक्षाः: milk-eaters

• ये च अन्ये: and those others

• जीव-क्षीणकाः: who emaciate/waste the vital life-force

• सर्वे ते: all of them

• भैक्ष्य-भक्षस्य: of the one who eats only alms (mendicant fare)

• कलाम्: a fraction/portion

• न अर्हन्ति: do not deserve/are not equal to

• षोडशीम्: the sixteenth part (1/16).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Purana teachings to the sages; verse presents a doctrinal valuation of bhiksha-vrata within Shaiva discipline)