Shloka 20

Prāyaścitta and Contextual Non-Culpability (प्रायश्चित्त-निमित्त-अदोषवाद)

Devanagari script

गुरुतल्पी शिलां तप्तामायसीमभिसंविशेत्‌ | अवकृत्यात्मन: शेफं प्रव्रजेदूर्ध्वदर्शन:

Transliteration

gurutalpī śilāṁ taptām āyasīm abhi-saṁviśet | avakṛtyātmanaḥ śephaṁ pravrajed ūrdhva-darśanaḥ ||

Translation

व्यास उवाच—गुरुतल्पी तप्तामायसीं शिलामभिसंविशेत्; अथवा आत्मनः शेफं अवकृत्य ऊर्ध्वदर्शनः प्रव्रजेत्।

Word by Word

गुरुतल्पीone who violates the guru’s bed (i.e., commits adultery with the teacher’s wife)

शिलाम्a stone/slab

तप्ताम्heated, red-hot

आयसीम्made of iron

अभिसंविशेत्should enter/lie upon

अवकृत्यhaving cut off

आत्मनःof oneself

शेफम्penis

प्रव्रजेत्should go forth (as an ascetic), should depart

ऊर्ध्वदर्शनःwith gaze directed upward

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

guru (teacher)

guru’s bed (gurutalpa)

heated iron slab (taptā āyasī śilā)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes