Shloka 17

Adhyaya 89: शौचाचारलक्षणम् — सदाचार, भैक्ष्यचर्या, प्रायश्चित्त, द्रव्यशुद्धि, आशौच-निर्णय

Devanagari script

भैक्ष्यं यवागूस्तक्रं वा पयो यावकमेव च फलमूलादि पक्वं वा कणपिण्याकसक्तवः

Transliteration

bhaikṣyaṃ yavāgūstakraṃ vā payo yāvakameva ca phalamūlādi pakvaṃ vā kaṇapiṇyākasaktavaḥ

Translation

Para quem observa a disciplina śaiva, são permitidos: alimento obtido por esmolas, yavāgū (mingau de arroz), takra (leitelho), leite e yāvaka (preparação de cevada); também frutas e raízes cozidas, bem como grãos como kaṇa, piṇyāka (torta de óleo) e saktu (farinha de cevada torrada).

Word by Word

• भैक्ष्यम्: food obtained by begging/alms

• यवागूः: thin rice gruel

• तक्रम्: buttermilk

• वा: or

• पयः: milk

• यावकम्: barley preparation (yāvaka)

• एव: indeed/only

• च: and

• फलमूलादि: fruits, roots, and the like

• पक्वम्: cooked/boiled

• वा: or

• कण: grains/coarse grain (often barley/rice fragments)

• पिण्याक: oil-cake/residue after pressing oilseeds

• सक्तवः: saktu, roasted grain flour (often barley)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Śaiva-vrata rules to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)