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Varaha Purana 112.17: Adhyaya 112, Shloka 17

Praise and Procedure of Donating the Two-Faced Kapilā Cow and the Golden Pot

Hema-kumbha

पतितैः स हि विज्ञेयश्चाण्डालसदृशोऽधमः ॥ तस्मान्न प्रतिगृह्णीयाच्छ्रूद्राद्विप्रः प्रतिग्रहम् ॥

Sanskrit recitationVaraha Purana 112.17

patitaiḥ sa hi vijñeyaś cāṇḍāla-sadṛśo 'dhamaḥ || tasmān na pratigṛhṇīyāc chrūdrād vipraḥ pratigraham ||

അവനെ പതിതനെന്നു അറിയണം—അധമൻ, ചാണ്ഡാലനോടു സമാനൻ. അതിനാൽ വിപ്രൻ ശൂദ്രനിൽ നിന്ന് പ്രതിഗ്രഹം (ദാനം സ്വീകരിക്കൽ) ചെയ്യരുത്.

पतितैःwith/among the fallen (outcast) persons
पतितैः:
Sahakāraka (सह/साकं)
TypeNoun
Rootपतित (कृदन्त; √पत् धातु)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (करण/सह), बहुवचन; past passive participle used substantively
सःhe
सः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; pronoun
हिindeed
हि:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootहि (अव्यय)
Formनिपात/पदार्थ-निश्चयक (particle of emphasis/indeed)
विज्ञेयःto be known/considered
विज्ञेयः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootविज्ञेय (कृदन्त; √ज्ञा धातु, वि-उपसर्ग)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विधिलिङ्गार्थे भाव्य/gerundive (to be known)
चाण्डाल-सदृशःsimilar to a caṇḍāla
चाण्डाल-सदृशः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootचाण्डाल (प्रातिपदिक) + सदृश (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (चाण्डालस्य सदृशः)
अधमःlowest, vile
अधमः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootअधम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
तस्मात्therefore
तस्मात्:
Hetu (हेतु)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतस्मात्-इत्यव्ययीभाव/निपातवत् प्रयोगः; अपादानार्थे (therefore/from that reason)
not
:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formनिषेध-निपात (negation)
प्रतिगृह्णीयात्should accept (as alms/gift)
प्रतिगृह्णीयात्:
Kriyā (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√ग्रह् (धातु) प्रति-उपसर्ग
Formविधिलिङ् (optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन; ‘should accept/receive’
शूद्रात्from a śūdra
शूद्रात्:
Apādāna (अपादान)
TypeNoun
Rootशूद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (अपादान), एकवचन
विप्रःa brāhmaṇa
विप्रः:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootविप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
प्रतिग्रहम्acceptance (of gifts), receiving alms
प्रतिग्रहम्:
Karma (कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootप्रतिग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Varāha

P
Purāṇic Literature
P
Pratigraha Rules
P
Premodern Social Categories
N
Normative Ethics

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It documents a normative boundary in premodern Sanskrit ethics regarding gift exchange and status, useful for historians of dharma literature.

No geographic location is identified.

It forbids certain forms of gift-acceptance and frames them as status-degrading within the text’s moral logic.

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