Shloka 155

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

तच्चाण्डालसमं ज्ञेयं नात्र कार्या विचारणा स्फिग्वातं शूर्पवातं च वातं प्राणमुखानिलम्

Transliteration

taccāṇḍālasamaṃ jñeyaṃ nātra kāryā vicāraṇā sphigvātaṃ śūrpavātaṃ ca vātaṃ prāṇamukhānilam

Translation

Saiba que o vento das nádegas, o vento de uma peneira e o hálito da boca são impuros como um chandala.

Word by Word

• tat: that

• cāṇḍāla-samam: equal to (the impurity of) a caṇḍāla/outcaste

• jñeyam: should be known/understood

• na atra: not here/in this matter

• kāryā: to be done

• vicāraṇā: deliberation/inquiry

• sphig-vātam: wind from the buttocks (flatulence)

• śūrpa-vātam: wind produced by a winnowing-basket/fan

• ca: and

• vātam: wind/air

• prāṇa-mukha-anilam: the air/breath (anila) from the mouth (mukha), i.e., exhalation

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating normative rules within the Linga Purana discourse)