Shloka 21
कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity
Devanagari script
सम्मान्यांश्षावमन्यन्ते वृद्धान् परिभवन्ति च । एवंविधा नरा देवि सर्वे निरयगामिन:
Transliteration
sammānyān avamanyante vṛddhān paribhavanti ca | evaṃvidhā narā devi sarve nirayagāminaḥ ||
Translation
他们轻慢应受尊荣者，也侮辱年迈之人。噢，女神啊，如此之人——无一例外——皆注定趋向地狱；因为被傲慢与贪欲驱使，他们不肯将长者与可敬之人如师般礼敬，反以轻蔑相待。
Word by Word
[{'term''sammānyān', 'definition': 'those worthy of honor
[{'term':
respectable persons'}, {'term''avamanyante', 'definition': 'they disrespect, slight, treat with contempt'}, {'term': 'vṛddhān', 'definition': 'the वृद्ध
respectable persons'}, {'term':
elders, aged persons, seniors'}, {'term''paribhavanti', 'definition': 'they insult, humiliate, dishonor'}, {'term': 'ca', 'definition': 'and'}, {'term': 'evaṃvidhāḥ', 'definition': 'of such a kind
elders, aged persons, seniors'}, {'term':
such people'}, {'term''narāḥ', 'definition': 'men, people'}, {'term': 'devi', 'definition': 'O Goddess (vocative address)'}, {'term': 'sarve', 'definition': 'all'}, {'term': 'nirayagāminaḥ', 'definition': 'going to Naraka (hell)
such people'}, {'term':
Speaker
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Characters & Entities
Ś
Śrīmaheśvara (speaker)D
Devī (addressee)V
vṛddhāḥ (elders)S
sammānyāḥ (honorable persons)N
niraya (Naraka/hell)Character Dynamics
Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Educational Q&A
To uphold dharma by honoring those worthy of respect—especially elders—and to avoid prideful or greedy contempt; such disrespect is presented as a grave moral fault leading to hellish consequences.
Śrīmaheśvara addresses Devī, describing a class of people who demean honorable persons and insult elders, and he declares the karmic outcome for such conduct: they become niraya-gāmin (hell-bound).