Shloka 14
Brahmin Right Conduct: Morning Remembrance, Bathing, Purification, and Tarpaṇa Method
शिरोदेशे ललाटे च नासिकायां हृदि भ्रुवोः । बाह्वोः पार्श्वे तथा नाभौ जान्वोरङ्घ्रिद्वये तथा
śirodeśe lalāṭe ca nāsikāyāṃ hṛdi bhruvoḥ | bāhvoḥ pārśve tathā nābhau jānvoraṅghridvaye tathā
शिरोदेशे ललाटे नासिकायां हृदि भ्रुवोर्मध्ये; बाह्वोः पार्श्वयोर्नाभौ जान्वोः अङ्घ्रिद्वये च तथा।
Unspecified in the provided excerpt (context needed from surrounding verses).
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
Sandhi Resolution Notes: जान्वोरङ्घ्रिद्वये = जान्वोः + अङ्घ्रिद्वये (ः + अ → र्).
FAQs
It reads like a list of bodily locations used in nyāsa (ritual placement/touching of mantras on specific body parts) as part of worship or mantra practice.
Such lists function as an instruction map for ritual sequence—guiding where a practitioner should place or contemplate mantra-energy, often to sacralize the body as a seat of worship.
No. In this shloka, only anatomical locations are enumerated; deity/tīrtha identification would require the surrounding context.