Shloka 22

Śīla-prāpti and Śīla-lakṣaṇa (शीलप्राप्ति-शीललक्षणम्) | On the Acquisition and Marks of Character

Devanagari script

धर्मांचरणमें विशेष मन लगावे। उत्तम कुलमें विवाह करे। उदार एवं क्षमाशील ब्राह्मणोंकी सेवामें रहे ।। जपेदुदकशील: स्यात्‌ सततं सुखमास्थित: । धर्मान्वितान्‌ सम्प्रविशेद्‌ बहि: कृत्वेह दुष्कृतीन्‌,वह जलमें खड़ा होकर गायत्रीका जप करे। सदा प्रसन्न रहे। पापियोंको राज्यसे बाहर निकालकर धर्मात्मा पुरुषोंका संग करे

Transliteration

japed udakaśīlaḥ syāt satataṃ sukham āsthitaḥ | dharmānvitān sampraviśed bahiḥ kṛtveha duṣkṛtīn ||

Translation

जपेदुदकशीलः स्यात् सततं सुखमास्थितः। धर्मान्वितान् सम्प्रविशेद् बहिः कृत्वेह दुष्कृतीन्॥

Word by Word

• {'japet (japed)': 'should recite

• should perform japa (muttered prayer/recitation)', 'udaka': 'water', 'udakaśīlaḥ': 'one whose practice involves water

• one observing water-based purity/ritual discipline (e.g., standing in water for japa)', 'syāt': 'should be

• ought to become', 'satataṃ': 'always

• continually', 'sukham': 'happiness

• well-being', 'āsthitaḥ': 'established in

• remaining', 'dharma': 'righteous order

• ethical law', 'dharmānvitān': 'those endowed with dharma

• righteous persons', 'sampraviśet': 'should enter

• should join', 'bahiḥ': 'outside

• out of (the kingdom/settlement)', 'kṛtvā': 'having done

• having made', 'iha': 'here

• in this world/realm', 'duṣkṛtīn': 'evil-doers

Speaker

कामन्दक उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Kāmandaka
• water (udaka)
• Gayatrī (implied by the Hindi gloss: gāyatrī-japa)