Shloka 43
Vānaprastha-dharma and Tapas: Śiva–Umā Saṃvāda
Forest-Stage Discipline and Austerity
ये मया कथिता दोषास्ते तथा स्युर्न चान्यथा । तस्मात् स्नात:ः शुचि: क्षान्तः श्राद्ध भुञज्जीत वै द्विज:
ye mayā kathitā doṣās te tathā syur na cānyathā | tasmāt snātaḥ śuciḥ kṣāntaḥ śrāddha-bhuñjīta vai dvijaḥ ||
ഞാൻ പറഞ്ഞ ദോഷങ്ങൾ അങ്ങനെ തന്നെയാകും; മറ്റെങ്ങനെ അല്ല. അതിനാൽ സ്നാനം ചെയ്ത്, ശുദ്ധനായി, ക്ഷമാശീലനായി ദ്വിജൻ ശ്രാദ്ധഭോജനം സ്വീകരിക്കണം.
देवदूत उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ritual acts like śrāddha must be approached with disciplined purity: after bathing, maintaining cleanliness and patience/self-control, the brahmin should partake of the śrāddha meal, since the previously stated ritual faults have definite consequences.
A divine messenger concludes an instruction by affirming the certainty of the defects (doṣas) earlier explained and then gives a practical directive: the proper state and conduct required for a dvija when eating in the context of a śrāddha.