Discrimination of the Three Bodies and the Dharaṇī Vow: A Manual for Dvādaśī Observance
देवं दद्यान्महाभागस्ततो विप्रांश्च भोजयेत् । भूरीणा परमान्नेन ततः पश्चात् स्वयं नरः । भुञ्जीत सहितो बालैर्वाग्यतः संयतेन्द्रियः ॥ ३९.५८ ॥
devaṃ dadyān mahābhāgas tato viprāṃś ca bhojayet | bhūrīṇā paramānnena tataḥ paścāt svayaṃ naraḥ | bhuñjīta sahito bālair vāgyataḥ saṃyatendriyaḥ || 39.58 ||
有福之人应先向神明奉献供品;继而以丰盛上妙之食供养婆罗门。其后,此人方可与孩童同食,自持言语,调伏诸根。
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in excerpt)
It reflects a normative household sequence found across Purāṇic and Dharmaśāstra-adjacent literature: offering to a deity, hospitality/feeding of learned guests, and only then the household’s own meal, framed as disciplined conduct.
No geographic toponym appears in this verse; it is a general prescriptive instruction rather than a site-specific passage.
Prioritizing giving and hospitality before personal consumption, coupled with self-restraint—controlled speech (vāgyama) and sensory discipline (indriya-saṃyama)—as markers of ethical comportment.
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