Varaha Purana 148.35: Adhyaya 148, Shloka 35

The Greatness of Stutasvāmi: Varāha’s Disclosure of the Bhūtagiri Sacred Landscape and Its Ethical Discipline

Devanagari script

ते तु मात्सर्यार्दोषेण नष्टाचाराः पतन्त्यधः ॥ मात्सर्यं सर्वनाशाय मात्सर्यं धर्मनाशकम् ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 148.35

Transliteration

te tu mātsaryārdoṣeṇa naṣṭācārāḥ patanty adhaḥ || mātsaryaṁ sarvanāśāya mātsaryaṁ dharmanāśakam

Translation

Lecz ci, dotknięci błędem zawiści i utraciwszy właściwe postępowanie, upadają w dół. Zawiść prowadzi do całkowitej zguby; zawiść jest tym, co niszczy dharmę.

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Word by Word

• ते: they
• ते: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Sarvanāma (सर्वनाम), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन)

• तु: but/indeed
• तु: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: Particle/contrastive indeclinable (निपात)

• मात्सर्य-दोषेण: by the fault of jealousy
• मात्सर्य-दोषेण: Karana (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mātsarya (प्रातिपदिक) + doṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: mātsaryasya doṣaḥ), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Instrumental (तृतीया/3), Singular (एकवचन)

• नष्ट-आचाराः: those whose conduct is ruined
• नष्ट-आचाराः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: naṣṭa (कृदन्त; √naś नश्) + ācāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Bahuvrīhi (बहुव्रीहि: yeṣāṁ ācāraḥ naṣṭaḥ), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन)

• पतन्ति: fall
• पतन्ति: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √pat (पत्)
• Form: Laṭ (लट्, Present), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Plural (बहुवचन)

• अधः: downwards/below
• अधः: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: adhaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (क्रियाविशेषण अव्यय)

• मात्सर्यम्: jealousy
• मात्सर्यम्: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mātsarya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

• सर्व-नाशाय: for total destruction
• सर्व-नाशाय: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष sense: sarvaḥ nāśaḥ), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Dative (चतुर्थी/4), Singular (एकवचन)

• मात्सर्यम्: jealousy
• मात्सर्यम्: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mātsarya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

• धर्म-नाशकम्: destroyer of dharma
• धर्म-नाशकम्: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dharma (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: dharmasya nāśakaḥ), Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन) (agreeing with mātsaryam)

Speaker

Varāha (default instructor voice in Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Ethics
• Vaiṣṇavism

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It represents a common Purāṇic ethical motif: inner vices (doṣa) such as mātsarya are treated as socially and spiritually corrosive, undermining ācāra (normative conduct) and dharma.

Which geographic location is identified?

No specific location is named in this verse; it functions as a general ethical statement within a larger sacred-geography narrative in the surrounding passage.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

Avoid mātsarya (envy), presented as a cause of moral decline (naṣṭācāra) and the destruction of dharma.