Shloka 3

Strī-dharma: Śiva’s Inquiry, Umā’s Consultation, and Gaṅgā’s Instruction

Devanagari script

असम्भाष्या भवन्त्येते पितृणां नाज संशय: । देवता: पितरश्रैषां नाभिनन्दन्ति तद्धवि:

Transliteration

asambhāṣyā bhavanty ete pitṝṇāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ | devatāḥ pitaraś caiva nābhinandanti tad haviḥ ||

Translation

洛迦沙说道：“此事无疑——此等之人，在祖灵眼中已不堪与之言。诸天与祖先，亦不以敬意受纳其所献之供物（havis）。”

Word by Word

• असम्भाष्याः: not fit to be spoken to
• असम्भाष्याः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: असम्भाष्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• भवन्ति: become/are
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• एते: these (persons)
• एते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पितॄणाम्: of the fathers/ancestors
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• अज: O Aj(a) (address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• संशयः: doubt
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• देवताः: the deities
• देवताः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवता
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• पितरः: the ancestors
• पितरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एषाम्: of these (persons)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• अभिनन्दन्ति: approve/welcome
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-नन्द्
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• तत्: that
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• हविः: oblation (offering)
• हविः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: हविस्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

लोगश उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Logaśa
• Pitṛs (ancestors)
• Devatās (gods)
• Havis (oblation)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Moral and ritual life are linked: when a person’s conduct makes them disgraceful before the ancestors, even their sacrificial offerings lose sanctity and are not honored by gods and Pitṛs.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker, Logaśa, is warning that certain wrongful behaviors render a person socially and spiritually unworthy; as a consequence, their ritual oblations (havis) fail to gain approval from divine and ancestral recipients.