Shloka 1

यतिप्रायश्चित्तविधानम्

Ascetic Atonements and Discipline

Devanagari script

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे सदाचारकथनं नामैकोननवतितमो ऽध्यायः सूत उवाच अत ऊर्ध्वं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतीनामिह निश्चितम् प्रायश्चित्तं शिवप्रोक्तं यतीनां पापशोधनम्

Transliteration

iti śrīliṅgamahāpurāṇe pūrvabhāge sadācārakathanaṃ nāmaikonanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ sūta uvāca ata ūrdhvaṃ pravakṣyāmi yatīnāmiha niścitam prāyaścittaṃ śivaproktaṃ yatīnāṃ pāpaśodhanam

Translation

Demikianlah, dalam Śrī Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa, bahagian awal (Pūrva-bhāga), tamatlah bab ke-89 yang bernama “Pengajaran Sadācāra (Tata Laku Benar)”. Sūta berkata: “Selepas ini aku akan menghuraikan disiplin yang telah ditetapkan di sini bagi para yatī—prāyaścitta (penebusan/penyucian) yang diajarkan oleh Śiva, yang menyucikan dosa para renunsi.”

Word by Word

• iti: thus

• śrī-liṅga-mahāpurāṇe: in the sacred Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

• pūrva-bhāge: in the first section (Pūrva-bhāga)

• sadācāra-kathanaṃ nāma: named ‘account/teaching of right conduct’

• ekona-navatitamaḥ adhyāyaḥ: the eighty-ninth chapter

• sūta uvāca: Sūta said

• ataḥ ūrdhvam: henceforth/now onward

• pravakṣyāmi: I shall explain

• yatīnām: of ascetics/renunciants

• iha: here (in this teaching)

• niścitam: definite/settled/authoritative

• prāyaścittam: expiation/atonement

• śiva-proktam: spoken by Śiva

• yatīnām pāpa-śodhanam: purification of the sins of ascetics

Speaker

Sūta (Sūta Gosvāmin)