Shloka 4

Suvarṇa-janma and Dakṣiṇā-Māhātmya

Origin and Supremacy of Gold as Ritual Fee

Devanagari script

इत्याचम्य जपेत्‌ सायं प्रातश्न॒ पुरुष: सदा । यदल्ला कुरुते पापं तस्मात्‌ स परिमुच्यते

Transliteration

ity ācamya japet sāyaṁ prātaś ca puruṣaḥ sadā | yad ahnā kurute pāpaṁ tasmāt sa parimucyate ||

Translation

Васиṣṭха сказал: «О царь, человеку следует всегда совершать ачаману (ācamana) и произносить эту формулу утром и вечером. Какой бы грех он ни совершил в течение дня, от него он полностью освобождается». Это наставление утверждает ежедневное очищение и благоговейное произнесение—особенно связанное со святостью коровы и топлёного масла гхи (ghee)—как дисциплинированную практику искупления и нравственного очищения.

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• आचम्य: having sipped (water) / having performed ācamana
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ + चम (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि

• जपेत्: should recite/mutter
• Type: Verb
• Root: जप् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ्, injunctive/optative (should), 3, singular, परस्मैपद

• सायम्: in the evening
• सायम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सायम्

• प्रातः: in the morning
• प्रातः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रातः

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• पुरुषः: a man/person
• पुरुषः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरुष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• सदा: always
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा

• यत्: whatever (that which)
• यत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• अह्ना: in a day / during the day
• अह्ना: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: neuter, instrumental, singular

• कुरुते: does/commits
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (धातु)
• Form: लट्, present, 3, singular, आत्मनेपद

• पापम्: sin/evil deed
• पापम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• तस्मात्: from that
• तस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: neuter, ablative, singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• परिमुच्यते: is completely freed/released
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि + मुच् (धातु)
• Form: लट्, present, 3, singular, आत्मनेपद, middle/passive sense: is freed

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• King (Rājan)
• ācamana (ritual sipping of water)
• japa (muttered recitation)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Regular purification (ācamana) and disciplined japa at dawn and dusk function as a daily prāyaścitta: the practitioner is said to be freed from the day’s moral faults, emphasizing routine self-cleansing and reverence-based restraint.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha instructs the king on a prescribed daily practice: after ācamana one should recite the given formula morning and evening; the verse states the promised result—release from sins committed during the day.