Shloka 36

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

Devanagari script

धातुशून्यबिलक्षेत्रक्षुद्रमन्त्रोपजीवनम् विषग्रहविडम्बादीन् वर्जयेत् सर्वयत्नतः

Transliteration

dhātuśūnyabilakṣetrakṣudramantropajīvanam viṣagrahaviḍambādīn varjayet sarvayatnataḥ

Translation

Com todo esforço, devem-se evitar meios de vida e práticas estéreis para o dharma: como trabalhar em minas ou covas sem minério adequado, cultivar campos inferiores, viver do pequeno comércio de mantras, e enganos como envenenar, tomar os bens alheios e outras fraudes.

Word by Word

• धातु-शून्य: devoid of ore/mineral

• बिल: pit, mine, cavern

• क्षेत्र: field, land for cultivation

• क्षुद्र: petty, base, inferior

• मन्त्र-उपजीवनम्: livelihood by means of mantras (selling/using mantras for gain)

• विष: poison

• ग्रह: seizure, taking, grasping (also ‘graha’ as affliction—here ‘seizing’ fits the list)

• विडम्ब: deception, fraud, imposture

• आदीन्: and others of that kind

• वर्जयेत्: one should avoid

• सर्व-यत्नतः: with all effort, completely

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Śaiva conduct and puja-dharma to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)