Shloka 3
Prāyaścitta and Contextual Non-Culpability (प्रायश्चित्त-निमित्त-अदोषवाद)
अनसूयुरध:शायी कर्म लोके प्रकाशयन् | पूर्णद्धादिशभिर्वर्षेब्रद्म॒हा विप्रमुच्यते
an asūyur adhaḥśāyī karma loke prakāśayan | pūrṇadvādaśabhir varṣair brahmahā vipramucyate ||
ವ್ಯಾಸನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಮಾಡಿದವನು ದ್ವೇಷರಹಿತನಾಗಿ, ನೆಲದ ಮೇಲೆ ಶಯನ ಮಾಡಿ, ಲೋಕದ ಮುಂದೆ ತನ್ನ ಕರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ, ಪೂರ್ಣ ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಅಂತ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅವನು ಪಾಪದಿಂದ ಮುಕ್ತನಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ.
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Grave wrongdoing requires sustained, visible, and disciplined atonement: humility (begging), restraint (celibacy, simple living), self-reliance, non-maliciousness, and public acknowledgment over a long period are presented as the means by which the sinner is purified.
Vyāsa states a rule of prāyaścitta: he describes the ascetic regimen and duration (twelve years) by which a person guilty of brahmahatyā is said to become freed from the sin.