Shloka 66
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
कृतशौचावशिष्टाश्च वर्जयेत् पञ्च वै मृदः ।
प्रक्षाल्य हस्तौ पादौ च समभ्युक्ष्य समाहितः ॥
kṛtaśaucāvaśiṣṭāś ca varjayet pañca vai mṛdaḥ | prakṣālya hastau pādau ca samabhyukṣya samāhitaḥ ||
शौचानन्तरं पञ्चविधां मृदं वर्जयेत्। हस्तपादौ प्रक्षाल्य, आत्मानं च जलैः प्रोक्ष्य, प्रसन्नचित्तः समाहितो भवेत्।
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FAQs
Purification is systematic: one avoids secondary contamination (used earth), completes washing, and returns to a collected mental state—purity is both physical and psychological.
Ancillary dharma instruction; not pañcalakṣaṇa.
The move from cleansing to ‘samāhita’ indicates that śauca culminates in restored inner steadiness; sprinkling water functions as a boundary-marking rite before re-entering sacred activities.