षण्ढं तु ब्राह्मणं हत्वा शूद्रहत्याव्रतं चरेत् । बहूनामेककार्याणां सर्वेषां शस्त्रधारिणाम्
ṣaṇḍhaṃ tu brāhmaṇaṃ hatvā śūdrahatyāvrataṃ caret | bahūnāmekakāryāṇāṃ sarveṣāṃ śastradhāriṇām
لیکن اگر کوئی خنثی (شَڼڈھ) برہمن کو قتل کرے تو شودر ہتیا کے لیے مقررہ پرایَشچت ورت کرے۔ اور جب بہت سے لوگ ایک ہی کام میں شریک ہوں اور سب ہتھیار بردار ہوں تو (ذمہ داری مشترک سمجھی جاتی ہے)۔
Īśvara (Śiva) (contextual attribution within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A cautionary tableau: armed men engaged in a joint violent act; a dharma-teacher points to a palm-leaf text indicating shared culpability; in a contrasting panel, penitents perform austerity and offer dāna at a tīrtha.
Actions carry graded consequences, and dharma-text style expiations are prescribed; collective wrongdoing can create collective accountability.
The teaching occurs within the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya, whose later verses highlight the purifying Sarasvatī at Prabhāsa.
The verse prescribes a specific ‘vrata’ (expiatory observance) aligned with śūdra-hatyā for this case.