Shloka 30
Prāyaścitta for Mahāpātakas: Liquor, Theft, Sexual Transgression, Contact with the Fallen, and Homicide
उदक्यागमने विप्रस्त्रिरात्रेण विशुध्यति / चाण्डालीगमने चैव तप्तकृच्छ्रत्रयं विदुः / सह सांतपनेनास्य नान्यथा निष्कृतिः स्मृता
udakyāgamane viprastrirātreṇa viśudhyati / cāṇḍālīgamane caiva taptakṛcchratrayaṃ viduḥ / saha sāṃtapanenāsya nānyathā niṣkṛtiḥ smṛtā
രജസ്വലയായ സ്ത്രീയെ പ്രാപിച്ചാൽ ബ്രാഹ്മണൻ മൂന്നു രാത്രികൊണ്ട് ശുദ്ധനാകുന്നു. എന്നാൽ ചണ്ഡാലസ്ത്രീയെ പ്രാപിച്ചാൽ മൂന്നു തപ്തകൃച്ഛ്രവും സാന്തപനവും അനുഷ്ഠിക്കാതെ മറ്റൊരു പരിഹാരവുമില്ല.
Traditional Purāṇic narrator (instructional dharma discourse within the Kurma Purana)
Primary Rasa: bibhatsa
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
This verse does not directly teach ātman-metaphysics; it frames dharma as purification (śuddhi) through disciplined expiation, which in the Purāṇic system supports inner clarity needed for higher knowledge and yoga.
No explicit meditative technique is taught here; instead, it emphasizes prāyaścitta (kṛcchra, sāṃtapana) as ethical-ritual self-restraint, a preparatory discipline that Purāṇas often treat as a foundation for yoga and steadiness of mind.
The verse is primarily dharma-legal and does not mention Śiva or Viṣṇu explicitly; within the Kurma Purana’s broader Shaiva-Vaishnava synthesis, such dharma prescriptions function as shared normative groundwork for devotion and yoga across both traditions.