Shloka 28
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
न जुहोत्युचिते काले न स्नाति न ददाति च पितृदेवार्चनाद्धीनः स षण्ढः परिगीयते
na juhotyucite kāle na snāti na dadāti ca pitṛdevārcanāddhīnaḥ sa ṣaṇḍhaḥ parigīyate
جو مناسب وقت پر ہَوَن نہیں کرتا، نہ غسل کرتا ہے اور نہ دان دیتا ہے؛ اور جو پِتروں اور دیوتاؤں کی پوجا سے محروم ہو، وہ ‘شَṇḍھ’ کہلاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Dharma is framed as sustained by regular, time-bound disciplines—worship, cleanliness, and generosity. Neglect of these is portrayed not merely as a private lapse but as a loss of religious competence and social-spiritual reliability.
It functions as ācāra/dharma instruction rather than one of the five classical marks; Purāṇas frequently embed such normative lists alongside narrative sections.
The term ‘ṣaṇḍha’ is symbolic rhetoric: a person who fails in the ‘productive’ duties of yajña, dāna, and worship is depicted as spiritually sterile—unable to generate merit (puṇya) or uphold lineage obligations (pitṛ-ṛṇa).