Shloka 23
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
विशुद्धगेहावसथादनायासाच्च वै द्विज ।
तथैव सस्यहा चान्यः सस्यर्धिमुपहन्ति यः ॥
viśuddha-gehāvasathād anāyāsāc ca vai dvija / tathaiva sasya-hā cānyaḥ sasya-ṛddhim upahanti yaḥ
हे द्विज! शुद्धगृहे शुद्धवासस्थाने निवासेन, अनायासेन च (रक्षणं भवति); तथा चान्योऽपि शस्यनाशकः सस्यसमृद्धिं हिनस्ति।
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FAQs
Material well-being (especially agrarian prosperity) is tied to ethical restraint and ordered living; harming communal sustenance (crops) is singled out as a direct attack on collective welfare.
Ancillary dharma teaching (ācāra/niyama) rather than a pancalakṣaṇa core category.
‘Crops’ can be read as the yield of one’s actions; the ‘crop-destroyer’ is any habit that undermines the maturation of merit (puṇya) and stability (śrī).