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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.75

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 75

अशौचव्यवस्थाThe rules of impurity

Verse 75

गर्भस्रावाज्जातमृतादन्यत्र मृतजातयोः । कुलाचारानुसारेण मानवोऽशौचमाचरेत् ॥ ७५ ॥

garbhasrāvājjātamṛtādanyatra mṛtajātayōḥ | kulācārānusārēṇa mānavō’śaucamācarēt || 75 ||

Translation

Apart from a miscarriage and a child dead at birth, on a death or a birth a man should keep impurity by the custom of his family.

Word by word

garbhasrāvāt
(garbhasrāvāt) a miscarriage
jāta
born
mṛtāt
(mṛtāt) dead
anyatra
apart from
mṛta
on a death
jātayōḥ
and a birth
kula
of the family
ācāra
the custom
anusārēṇa
by
mānavaḥ
(mānavaḥ) a man
aśaucam
(aśaucam) impurity
ācarēt
should keep

Meaning

Āśauca, ritual impurity, follows a birth or death in the family. Its rules, the text says, follow family custom; the next verse gives the usual lengths.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now, in connexion, he gives the rule of impurity and the rest, with "garbhasrāvāt" and the rest. Apart from a miscarriage (garbhasrāva, the fall of the embryo) and a child that dies as soon as it is born, in other cases, of a death and a birth, a man should keep (ācaret, do) the impurity, the rule of being unclean, according to the custom of his own family.