Paingala Upanishad 9 — Verse 9

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

नाशौचं नाग्निकार्यं च न पिण्डं नोदकक्रिया । न कुर्यात् पार्वणादीनि ब्रह्मभूताय भिक्षवे ॥९॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

न । अशौचम् । न । अग्नि-कार्यम् । च । न । पिण्डम् । न । उदक-क्रिया । न । कुर्यात् । पार्वण-आदीनि । ब्रह्म-भूताय । भिक्षवे ॥

IAST Transliteration

nāśaucaṃ nāgnikāryaṃ ca na piṇḍaṃ nodakakriyā | na kuryāt pārvaṇādīni brahmabhūtāya bhikṣave ||9||

Translation

不浄の期間（アシャウチャ）もなく、火の儀礼もなく、ピンダ（飯団子の供養）もなく、水の儀礼（ウダカ・クリヤー）もない。ブラフマンとなった托鉢者のために、半月の祭儀など（パールヴァナ等）を行ってはならない。

Academic Translation

No impurity-observance (aśauca), no fire-ritual, no rice-ball offering (piṇḍa), nor water-rite (udaka-kriyā): one should not perform the fortnightly rites and the like (pārvaṇa-ādīni) for a mendicant who has become Brahman.

Verse Context

• Jīvanmukti/ Brahmabhāva; transcendence of ritual obligations (karma)
• Mahavakya: Practical corollary of mahāvākya-realization: one who knows 'aham brahmāsmi' is 'brahmabhūta' and thus beyond obligatory rites; not itself a mahāvākya.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka-like)