Shloka 21

यतिप्रायश्चित्तविधानम्

Ascetic Atonements and Discipline

Devanagari script

अभोज्यानि यतीनां तु प्रत्यक्षलवणानि च एकैकातिक्रमात्तेषां प्रायश्चित्तं विधीयते

Transliteration

abhojyāni yatīnāṃ tu pratyakṣalavaṇāni ca ekaikātikramātteṣāṃ prāyaścittaṃ vidhīyate

Translation

ヤティたちには食してはならぬ物がある。とりわけ塩味がはっきり感じられる食は禁じられる。これらの制限のいずれか一つでも犯したなら、相応のプラーヤシュチッタ（贖罪）が定められる。

Word by Word

• abhojyāni: foods that must not be eaten/forbidden foods

• yatīnām: of renunciants (ascetics)

• tu: indeed/and

• pratyakṣa-lavaṇāni: having salt that is directly perceptible (openly salted)

• ca: also

• ekaika-atikramāt: by violating even one (rule) individually

• teṣām: for them/of those (ascetics)

• prāyaścittam: expiation/atonement

• vidhīyate: is enjoined/is prescribed

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the dharma and prāyaścitta rules to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)