Shloka 32

कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity

Devanagari script

यस्तु रौद्रसमाचार: सर्वसत्त्वभयंकर: । हस्ताभ्यां यदि वा पदभ्यां रज्ज्वा दण्डेन वा पुन:

Transliteration

yastu raudrasamācāraḥ sarvasattvabhayaṅkaraḥ | hastābhyāṃ yadi vā padabhyāṃ rajjvā daṇḍena vā punaḥ ||

Translation

マハーデーヴァは言った。「だが、行いが猛々しく残酷で、あらゆる生きものを恐れさせる者—手で打とうと足で蹴ろうと、あるいは縄や杖を用いようと—（そのような暴虐の振る舞いがここに説かれている）。」

Word by Word

• यः: who
• यः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• रौद्र-समाचारः: one whose conduct is cruel/fierce
• रौद्र-समाचारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: समाचार (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्व-सत्त्व-भयंकरः: terrifying to all beings
• सर्व-सत्त्व-भयंकरः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भयंकर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• हस्ताभ्याम्: with (his) two hands
• हस्ताभ्याम्: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हस्त (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Dual

• यदि: if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदि

• वा: or
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वा

• पदभ्याम्: with (his) two feet
• पदभ्याम्: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Dual

• रज्ज्वा: with a rope
• रज्ज्वा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: रज्जु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• दण्डेन: with a staff/rod
• दण्डेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दण्ड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• वा: or
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वा

• पुनः: again/further
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrīmaheśvara (Mahādeva/Śiva)
• hands
• feet
• rope (rajjū)
• staff/rod (daṇḍa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the moral gravity of cruel, fear-inducing conduct: harming beings—by direct blows or by instruments—marks a person as violent in disposition, setting up an ethical warning against such behavior.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śrīmaheśvara is describing a type of person characterized by raudra (fierce) behavior, listing concrete modes of harming—hands, feet, rope, staff—as part of a broader instruction on right conduct and the condemnation of cruelty.