Shloka 68
Adhyaya 34 — Duties of Women
सम्यगाचम्य तोयेन क्रियां कुर्वोत वै शुचिः ।
देवतानामृषीणाञ्च पितॄणाञ्चैव यत्नतः ॥
samyagācamya toyena kriyāṃ kurvota vai śuciḥ | devatānām ṛṣīṇāñ ca pitṝṇāñ caiva yatnataḥ ||
आचम्य शुचिर्भूत्वा यथाविधि सावधानतया कर्माणि कुर्यात्—देवानां ऋषीणां पितॄणां च यानि विधीयन्ते।
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FAQs
Outer cleanliness and inner attentiveness are treated as prerequisites for dharmic action. The verse links personal purity (śauca) with responsibility toward three spheres of obligation: Devas (cosmic order), Ṛṣis (transmission of knowledge), and Pitṛs (lineage continuity).
This is not primarily sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita material; it belongs to ancillary Purāṇic dharma-śāstra style instruction (ācāra), a common didactic layer within Purāṇas.
Ācamana symbolizes resetting one’s ‘ritual body’—a microcosmic purification before engaging the macrocosmic powers (Devas), the luminous intellect-tradition (Ṛṣis), and the subtle ancestral field (Pitṛs).