Shloka 65

Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller

Devanagari script

कुपितः कुलनाशाय ईश्वरो रोगवृद्धये भानुर्वै यतते तस्य नरस्य क्षणदाचर

Transliteration

kupitaḥ kulanāśāya īśvaro rogavṛddhaye bhānurvai yatate tasya narasya kṣaṇadācara

Translation

Разгневавшись, владыка-Солнце (Бхану) стремится к уничтожению рода того человека и к умножению его болезней, о Кшанадчара.

Word by Word

• kupitaḥ: angered
• kupitaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of bhānuḥ/īśvaraḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kupita (कृदन्त, √kup/कुप् past passive participle)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; PPP used adjectivally

• kula-nāśāya: for the destruction of (his) family/lineage
• kula-nāśāya: Prayojana (प्रयोजन, purpose)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kula (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Caturthī (4th/dative), Ekavacana; samāsa: kulanāśa = kulasya nāśaḥ

• īśvaraḥ: the Lord
• īśvaraḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: īśvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

• roga-vṛddhaye: for the increase of disease
• roga-vṛddhaye: Prayojana (प्रयोजन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: roga (प्रातिपदिक) + vṛddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Caturthī, Ekavacana; samāsa: rogavṛddhi = rogasya vṛddhiḥ

• bhānuḥ: the Sun (Bhānu)
• bhānuḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhānu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; nipāta (emphatic particle)

• yatate: strives / exerts (himself)
• yatate: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √yat (यत्)
• Form: Laṭ (present), Prathama-puruṣa, Ekavacana; ātmanepada

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (तद् सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga (sarvanāma), Ṣaṣṭhī, Ekavacana

• narasya: of the man
• narasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Ṣaṣṭhī, Ekavacana

• kṣaṇa-dā: O night (giver of moments)
• kṣaṇa-dā: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṣaṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + dā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Sambodhana (8th/vocative), Ekavacana; bahuvrīhi: kṣaṇadā = kṣaṇaṃ dadāti iti / kṣaṇān dadāti iti (night, ‘giver of moments’)

• cara: move on / proceed
• cara: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √car (चर्)
• Form: Loṭ (लोट्, imperative), Madhyama-puruṣa (2nd person), Ekavacana; parasmaipada

Speakers

• Not stated in the provided excerpt (commonly Pulastya → Nārada framework in Vāmana Purāṇa; uncertain here)

Primary Deities

• Surya (Bhānu)

Key Themes

• Karmic consequence
• Social continuity (kula) and dharma
• Disease as adharma-fruit
• Sūrya as regulator of ṛta

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The text links personal conduct to both bodily wellbeing and family continuity: adharma is said to rebound as social instability (kula-kṣaya) and physical affliction (roga).

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

Again, dharma-upadeśa (ācāra) rather than cosmological creation cycles; it functions as normative guidance within Purāṇic instruction.

What is the symbolic significance?

Lineage and health stand for ‘life-supporting order’; Sūrya’s punitive role symbolizes that violations of ordained duty are treated as violations of cosmic rhythm, yielding visible decay in society and the body.