Shloka 32
कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity
यस्तु रौद्रसमाचार: सर्वसत्त्वभयंकर: । हस्ताभ्यां यदि वा पदभ्यां रज्ज्वा दण्डेन वा पुन:
yastu raudrasamācāraḥ sarvasattvabhayaṅkaraḥ | hastābhyāṃ yadi vā padabhyāṃ rajjvā daṇḍena vā punaḥ ||
ಮಹಾದೇವನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಯಾರ ನಡೆ ಉಗ್ರವೂ ಕ್ರೂರವೂ ಆಗಿ, ಸರ್ವ ಜೀವಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಭಯಂಕರವಾಗಿದೆಯೋ—ಅವನು ಕೈಗಳಿಂದ ಹೊಡೆಯಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾಲಿನಿಂದ ತುಳಿಯಲಿ, ಮತ್ತೆ ಹಗ್ಗದಿಂದಲೋ ದಂಡದಿಂದಲೋ ಬಳಸಲಿ—ಇಂತಹ ಹಿಂಸಾಚಾರವೇ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿದೆ.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
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.
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.