Shloka 9
गृहस्थस्य सदाचारः: शौच, तर্পण, वैश्वदेव, अतिथिधर्म, भोजन-विधि, संध्योपासन, ऋतु-धर्मः
नैरृत्याम् इषुविक्षेपम् अतीत्याभ्यधिकं भुवः दूराद् आवसथान् मूत्रं पुरीषं च समुत्सृजेत्
nairṛtyām iṣuvikṣepam atītyābhyadhikaṃ bhuvaḥ dūrād āvasathān mūtraṃ purīṣaṃ ca samutsṛjet
ਨੈਰ੍ਰਿਤ ਦਿਸ਼ਾ ਵੱਲ, ਤੀਰ ਦੀ ਉਡਾਣ ਜਿੰਨੀ ਦੂਰੀ ਤੋਂ ਅੱਗੇ—ਅਤੇ ਵਸੇਬਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਦੂਰ—ਪਿਸ਼ਾਬ ਤੇ ਪਾਖਾਨਾ ਤਿਆਗੇ।
Sage Parāśara (in instruction to Maitreya)
FAQs
This verse treats śauca as a practical discipline: maintaining distance from dwellings while relieving oneself protects communal cleanliness and supports dharma as social and cosmic order.
Parāśara gives concrete behavioral rules—direction and distance—showing that dharma includes embodied habits that uphold purity, restraint, and harmony in community living.
Even when Vishnu is not named, the Purana frames dharma and purity as part of the ordered world sustained by the Supreme—Vishnu—so personal discipline becomes participation in that sustaining order.