Shloka 26
Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas — Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
परदारावमर्शित्वं पारक्येर्ऽथे च लोलुपा स्वाध्यायं त्र्यम्बके भक्तिर्धर्मो ऽयं राक्षसः स्मृतः
paradārāvamarśitvaṃ pārakyer'the ca lolupā svādhyāyaṃ tryambake bhaktirdharmo 'yaṃ rākṣasaḥ smṛtaḥ
ការរំលោភភរិយារបស់អ្នកដទៃ ការលោភលន់ចំពោះទ្រព្យសម្បត្តិរបស់អ្នកដទៃ ស្វាធ្យាយៈ (ការសិក្សាវេទ) និងភក្តីភាពចំពោះ ត្រ្យម្បក (សិវៈ)—នេះត្រូវបានចងចាំថា ជាធម៌របស់រាក្សសៈ។
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FAQs
The verse juxtaposes adharma-markers (sexual transgression, covetousness) with orthodox markers (svādhyāya, bhakti). Read as typology, it warns that ritual learning and even devotion can coexist with moral failure—ethical restraint is not automatically guaranteed by religiosity.
This is primarily dharma-śikṣā (ethical instruction) embedded in purāṇic narration, not one of the core five topics in itself. It functions as supporting didactic material (upabṛṃhaṇa) that often accompanies vamśa/manvantara narratives.
Attributing “Tryambaka-bhakti” even to Rākṣasas reflects the Purāṇa’s broad theological ecology: Śiva is a devotion-focus across ontological tiers. Symbolically, it highlights that devotion without inner purification can be incomplete, and that cosmic orders contain mixed qualities.