Shloka 5
दानशील-समाचारः, सत्कारः, अहिंसा च
Umā–Maheśvara Saṃvāda
इदं चैवापरं गुह्ुमप्रशस्तं निबोधत । अग्नेस्तु वृषलो नेता हविर्मूढाश्व योषित:
idaṃ caivāparaṃ guhyaṃ apraśastaṃ nibodhata | agnestu vṛṣalo netā havirmūḍhāśva yoṣitaḥ ||
Disse Dhaumya: Agora compreende mais um ponto confidencial — não louvável, antes censurável. Se um Śūdra se torna o portador do fogo sagrado do agnihotra de um dvija, levando-o de um lugar a outro, e se mulheres ignorantes carregam o havis destinado ao sacrifício, então aquele que toma tal conduta por ‘dharma’ fica manchado por adharma. Os fogos sagrados se enfurecem contra ele, e diz-se que ele renasce num ventre Śūdra.
धौग्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns that certain ritual roles—specifically transporting the sacred sacrificial fire and carrying the oblation—are considered improper when performed by those deemed ritually unqualified in this normative framework. Treating such impropriety as ‘dharma’ is said to lead to adharma and adverse karmic consequences, symbolized by the anger of the sacred fires and an inferior rebirth.
Dhaugya continues an instruction on dharma by introducing a ‘secret’ but negative example (apraśasta). He lists actions regarded as blameworthy in sacrificial procedure—having a Śūdra transport the ritual fire and having ignorant women carry the havis—and states the moral-ritual consequence for endorsing such acts as righteous.