Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 146 Shloka 39 - Mahabharata | Japanese | Vedapath

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Shloka 39

Rudra-Śiva: Names, Two Natures, and the Logic of Epithets (रुद्रनाम-बहुरूपत्व-प्रकरणम्)

Devanagari script

आहिताग्निरधीयानो जुहद्दान: संयतेन्द्रिय: । विघसाशी यताहारो गृहस्थ: सत्यवाक्‌ शुचि:

Transliteration

āhitāgnir adhīyāno juhad-dānaḥ saṃyatendriyaḥ | vighasāśī yatāhāro gṛhasthaḥ satyavāk śuciḥ ||

Translation

マハーデーヴァは言った。「家住者は、正しく聖火を स्थापितしアグニホートラを守る者であるべきだ。ヴェーダの学習（スヴァーディヤーヤ）に励み、供物を捧げ施しを行い、諸感官を制し、供献と客の饗応の後に残ったもののみを食し、食を節し、真実を語り、清浄に生きるべきである。」

Word by Word

आहिताग्निःone who has established the sacred fires

अधीयानःstudying (reciting the Veda)

जुहत्offering (into the fire), performing oblations

दानःgiver; one who gives (charity)

संयतेन्द्रियःone whose senses are restrained

विघसाशीeating only after others/after offerings (leftovers)

यताहारःmoderate in food; regulated diet

गृहस्थःhouseholder

सत्यवाक्truth-speaking

शुचिःpure, clean

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahādeva (Śrī Maheśvara)

gṛhastha (householder)

āhita-agni (established sacred fires)

Agnihotra (implied by āhitāgni and juhat)

svādhyāya (implied by adhīyāna)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse defines the ethical and ritual ideal of a gṛhastha: sustaining sacred fires and daily offerings, continuing Vedic study, practicing charity, restraining the senses, eating moderately and only after duties of offering and hospitality, speaking truth, and maintaining purity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śrī Maheśvara is instructing on gṛhastha-dharma within Anuśāsana Parva’s broader teachings on right conduct, listing the qualities and disciplines that make a householder’s life dharmic.