Varaha Purana 5.20: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 20

Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa

Devanagari script

ततः संयमनो विप्रो दृष्ट्वा तं मृगयारतम् । वारयामास मा भद्र जीवघातमिमं कुरु ॥ ५.२० ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 5.20

Transliteration

tataḥ saṁyamano vipro dṛṣṭvā taṁ mṛgayā-ratam | vārayāmāsa mā bhadra jīvaghātam imaṁ kuru || 5.20 ||

Translation

ครั้นนั้นพราหมณ์สํยมนนะเห็นเขาหมกมุ่นในการล่า จึงห้ามไว้และกล่าวว่า “ท่านผู้เจริญ อย่ากระทำกรรมฆ่าสัตว์มีชีวิตนี้เลย”

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Word by Word

• tataḥ: then
• tataḥ: Kāla (काल/Sequence)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रम/हेतुवाचक-अव्यय (then/thereupon)

• saṃyamanaḥ: Saṃyamana
• saṃyamanaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃyamana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन (proper name)

• vipraḥ: brāhmaṇa
• vipraḥ: Apposition (समनाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vipra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• dṛṣṭvā: having seen
• dṛṣṭvā: Kriya (क्रिया; पूर्वकर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛś (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (Gerund/Absolutive)

• tam: him
• tam: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘लुब्धम्’ प्रति निर्देश

• mṛgayā-ratam: engaged in hunting
• mṛgayā-ratam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mṛgayā + rata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; सप्तमी-तत्पुरुष (mṛgayāyāṃ rataḥ)

• vārayāmāsa: restrained/stopped
• vārayāmāsa: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vṛ (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; causative sense (णिच्) ‘to cause to stop’

• mā: do not
• mā: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Prohibition)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: mā (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय (prohibitive particle)

• bhadra: O good sir
• bhadra: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhadra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; पुंलिङ्ग/सामान्य; प्रियसम्बोधन

• jīvaghātam: killing of living beings
• jīvaghātam: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jīva + ghāta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (jīvānāṃ ghātaḥ)

• imam: this
• imam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘जीवघातम्’ इत्यस्य विशेषण

• kuru: do
• kuru: Kriya (क्रिया; आदेश)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु)
• Form: लोट्-लकार (Imperative), मध्यम-पुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन, परस्मैपद

Speaker

Varāha (default narrative frame; speaker not explicit in fragment)

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Narrative
• Ecological Ethics
• Dharma-śāstra Themes

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It reflects a common Purāṇic ethical motif: a learned figure intervenes to discourage violence, illustrating how dharma discourse is embedded in narrative episodes.

Which geographic location is identified?

No geographic toponym appears in this verse fragment; it is an ethical encounter scene rather than a sacred-geography marker.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

To refrain from harming living beings—an explicit discouragement of hunting framed as jīvaghāta (killing of life).