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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.80

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 80

शवदाहव्यवस्था, सहमरणनिषेधःCremation; a wife is not to die with her husband

Verse 80

तव स्वरूपा रमणी जगत्याच्छन्नविग्रहा । मोहाद्भर्त्तुश्चितारोहात् भवेन्नरकगामिनी ॥ ८० ॥

tava svarūpā ramaṇī jagatyācchannavigrahā | mōhādbharttuścitārōhāt bhavēnnarakagāminī || 80 ||

Translation

Every woman is your own form, her body hiding you in the world; if in delusion she mounts her husband's pyre, she goes to hell.

Word by word

tava
your
svarūpā
own form
ramaṇī
a woman
jagati
(jagati) in the world
ācchanna
hiding
vigrahā
whose body
mōhāt
(mohāt) in delusion
bharttuḥ
(bhartuḥ) of her husband
citā
the pyre
ārōhāt
(ārohāt) by mounting
bhavēt
she becomes
naraka
to hell
gāminī
one who goes

Meaning

The reason given for forbidding satī is theological: every woman is the Goddess herself, concealed in a human form. To burn her is to burn the Goddess, and the act born of delusion (moha), grief or false belief, leads not to heaven but to hell.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 79.