Shloka 34

अध्याय २८१ — दानधर्मः, न्यायागतधनम्, ऋणत्रय-परिशोधनं च

Dāna ethics, lawful wealth, and settling obligations

Devanagari script

तमेषा यास्यति क्षिप्रं तत्रैव च निवत्स्यति । ब्रह्मवध्या हव्यवाह व्येतु ते मानसो ज्वर:

Transliteration

tam eṣā yāsyati kṣipraṃ tatraiva ca nivatsyati | brahmavadhyā havyavāha vyetu te mānaso jvaraḥ ||

Translation

梵天说道：“此罪将迅速归于那个人，并就在那里安住。噢，哈维瓦哈（Havyavāha），愿你心中的热恼消散：梵杀罪（brahmahatyā）的重负不当留在你身上，而要转移到那被昏暗（tamas）遮蔽、在你于某处被点燃时却未尽应有敬奉之人。”

Word by Word

• तम्: that (thing/it)
• तम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• एषा: this (she/this one)
• एषा: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• यास्यति: will go
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (गत्यर्थे)
• Form: simple future (luṭ), 3rd, singular

• क्षिप्रम्: quickly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: क्षिप्र

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• एव: indeed/just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

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

• निवत्स्यति: will dwell/settle
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि-√वस् (निवासे)
• Form: simple future (luṭ), 3rd, singular

• ब्रह्मवध्या: the sin/affliction of brahma-slaying (brahmahatyā)
• ब्रह्मवध्या: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मवध्या
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• हव्यवाह: O Havyavāha (Agni, carrier of oblations)
• हव्यवाह: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हव्यवाह
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• व्येतु: let it depart/vanish
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-√इ (गत्यर्थे)
• Form: imperative (loṭ), 3rd, singular

• ते: of you/your
• ते: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, genitive, singular

• मानसः: mental
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मानस
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• ज्वरः: fever; anguish
• ज्वरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: ज्वर
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Havyavāha (Agni, Fire)
• Brahmavadhyā/Brahmahatyā (personified sin)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames moral accountability as following the true locus of negligence: when proper reverence and duty are not performed due to tamas (spiritual inertia/ignorance), the resulting demerit attaches to the negligent person rather than remaining with an instrument like Fire. It reassures Agni that anxiety should cease because guilt is not arbitrary; it adheres to ethical causality.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma recounts a teaching addressed to Agni (Havyavāha): the personified burden of brahmahatyā/brahmavadhyā will swiftly move to and reside in the individual who fails to perform the appropriate honoring/worship when Fire is kindled. The statement is meant to calm Agni’s mental distress.