Shloka 81
Daily Duties of Brāhmaṇas: Snāna, Sandhyā, Sūrya-hṛdaya, Japa, Tarpaṇa, and the Pañca-mahāyajñas
चण्डालाशौचपतितान् दृष्ट्वाचम्य पुनर्जपेत् / तैरेव भाषणं कृत्वा स्नात्वा चैव जपेत् पुनः
caṇḍālāśaucapatitān dṛṣṭvācamya punarjapet / taireva bhāṣaṇaṃ kṛtvā snātvā caiva japet punaḥ
ചണ്ഡാലനെയോ അശുചിയെയോ പതിതനെയോ കണ്ടാൽ ആചമനം ചെയ്ത് വീണ്ടും ജപം ചെയ്യണം; എന്നാൽ അവരുമായി സംസാരിച്ചാൽ സ്നാനം ചെയ്ത് പിന്നെയേ ജപം പുനരാരംഭിക്കണം।
Traditional narrator within the Purāṇic discourse (instructional dharma-vidhi section; commonly framed as the teaching voice in the Kurma Purana’s ritual-ācāra passages).
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
Indirectly: it treats japa as a sacred discipline requiring external purity; the Atman remains untouched, yet the practitioner’s embodied mind is trained through shaucha to sustain steadiness in mantra and devotion.
Mantra-japa supported by preparatory rites—ācamana after an impure sight and snāna after contact (conversation). This reflects the Kurma Purana’s broader insistence that inner concentration is strengthened by regulated conduct (ācāra) and purification (śauca).
Not explicitly; it belongs to shared dharma-śāstra style discipline found across Shaiva-Vaishnava syntheses in the Kurma Purana, where purity and japa are common foundations for devotion whether oriented to Shiva, Vishnu, or the one Ishvara.