Shloka 77

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

Devanagari script

उन्देफ़िलब्ले पेओप्ले नैवाशौचं यतीनां च वनस्थब्रह्मचारिणाम् नैष्ठिकानां नृपाणां च मण्डलीनां च सुव्रताः

Transliteration

undefilable people naivāśaucaṃ yatīnāṃ ca vanasthabrahmacāriṇām naiṣṭhikānāṃ nṛpāṇāṃ ca maṇḍalīnāṃ ca suvratāḥ

Translation

遁世の行者（ヤティ）、林住のブラフマチャーリン、堅固に誓戒を守る者、王たち、そして清き戒行を保つ規律ある修行者には、アーシャウチャ（儀礼的不浄）は存在しない。彼らの清浄は、揺るがぬヴラタと内なる自制によって保たれ、世の穢れを超えたパティ—主シヴァ—へと向けられている。

Word by Word

• na eva: not at all

• āśaucam: ritual impurity/period of impurity

• yatīnām: of ascetics/renunciants

• ca: and

• vanastha-brahmacāriṇām: of brahmacārins dwelling in the forest

• naiṣṭhikānām: of those firm in lifelong vows/steadfast practitioners

• nṛpāṇām: of kings/rulers

• ca: and

• maṇḍalīnām: of maṇḍalins (disciplined ascetics/initiates maintaining a regulated observance)

• ca: and

• su-vratāḥ: those of good vows, well-observant practitioners.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)