Shloka 70

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

Devanagari script

पण्यं प्रसारितं चैव वर्णाश्रमविभागशः शुचिराकरजं तेषां श्वा मृगग्रहणे शुचिः

Transliteration

paṇyaṃ prasāritaṃ caiva varṇāśramavibhāgaśaḥ śucirākarajaṃ teṣāṃ śvā mṛgagrahaṇe śuciḥ

Translation

また、商いもヴァルナとアーシュラマの区分に従って営まれた。彼らにとって、鉱山から得られるものは清浄とされ、狩猟において野獣を捕らえるときは、犬でさえ清浄と見なされる。

Word by Word

• पण्यं: trade, merchandise

• प्रसारितम्: spread out, set in motion

• च एव: and indeed

• वर्णाश्रम-विभागशः: according to the divisions of varṇa and āśrama

• शुचि: pure, ritually clean

• आकर-जम्: born from a mine/quarry (mineral wealth)

• तेषाम्: for them, of those people

• श्वा: a dog

• मृग-ग्रहणे: in seizing/catching a wild animal

• शुचिः: (is) pure

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)