Shloka 39
Rudra-Śiva: Names, Two Natures, and the Logic of Epithets (रुद्रनाम-बहुरूपत्व-प्रकरणम्)
आहिताग्निरधीयानो जुहद्दान: संयतेन्द्रिय: । विघसाशी यताहारो गृहस्थ: सत्यवाक् शुचि:
āhitāgnir adhīyāno juhad-dānaḥ saṃyatendriyaḥ | vighasāśī yatāhāro gṛhasthaḥ satyavāk śuciḥ ||
ಗೃಹಸ್ಥನು ಆಹಿತಾಗ್ನಿಯಾಗಿ ಅಗ್ನಿಹೋತ್ರವನ್ನು ಪಾಲಿಸುವವನಾಗಿರಬೇಕು; ಸ್ವಾಧ್ಯಾಯನಿಷ್ಠನಾಗಿರಬೇಕು; ಹೋಮ-ದಾನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ತತ್ಪರನಾಗಿರಬೇಕು; ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಸಂಯಮಿಯೂ ಆಗಿರಬೇಕು; ವಿಘಸಾಶಿಯೂ ಮಿತಾಹಾರಿಯೂ ಆಗಿ, ಸತ್ಯವಚನಿಯೂ ಶುದ್ಧನೂ ಆಗಿರಬೇಕು.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
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.
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.