Shloka 27
Kārttika-vrata Discipline: Purity Rules, Morning Bath Saṅkalpa, Tilaka Injunctions, and Food Prohibitions
शिंबी पापकरा प्रोक्ता पूतिका ब्रह्मघातिका । वार्ताक्यां सुतनाशः स्याच्चिररोगी च माषके
śiṃbī pāpakarā proktā pūtikā brahmaghātikā | vārtākyāṃ sutanāśaḥ syāccirarogī ca māṣake
ศิมพีถูกกล่าวว่าเป็นเหตุแห่งบาป; ปูติกาถูกกล่าวว่าทำลายดุจบาปพรหมหัตยา. กินวารตากีอาจมีโทษถึงการสูญเสียบุตร; และกินมาษะทำให้เจ็บป่วยเรื้อรังยืดยาว.
Unspecified narrator within the chapter’s didactic dialogue (traditional frame commonly: Pulastya instructing Bhīṣma in Brahma-khaṇḍa sections).
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: karuna
Sandhi Resolution Notes: स्याच्चिररोगी = स्यात् + चिररोगी; (च is present separately in text as '... चिररोगी च ...').
FAQs
It lists specific food items and associates them with negative karmic outcomes—sin, severe demerit, loss of progeny, and chronic illness—framing diet as an ethical and spiritual discipline.
The wording presents it as “brahmaghātikā,” i.e., producing demerit comparable in gravity to brahma-hatyā within the text’s moral rhetoric about purity rules; interpretive traditions may read this as a strong deterrent rather than a legal equivalence.
The verse reinforces the Purāṇic principle that everyday choices—especially diet—carry karmic and psychosomatic consequences, encouraging restraint (niyama) and mindful living aligned with dharma.