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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.129

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 129

अवैधमांसादिसेवने प्रायश्चित्तम्Expiation for eating forbidden meat and the like

Verse 129

अनुलोमेन वर्णानामन्नं भुक्त्वा सकृत् प्रिये । दिनत्रयोपवासेन विशुद्धः स्यान्ममाज्ञया ॥ १२९ ॥

anulōmēna varṇānāmannaṁ bhuktvā sakṛt priyē | dinatrayōpavāsēna viśuddhaḥ syānmamājñayā || 129 ||

Translation

Having once eaten the food of classes below one's own, beloved, one is purified by fasting three days, by my command.

Word by word

anulōmēna
below one's own
varṇānām
(varṇānām) of classes
annaṁ
food
bhuktvā
having eaten
sakṛt
once
priyē
O beloved
dina
days
traya
three
upavāsēna
by fasting
viśuddhaḥ
(viśuddhaḥ) purified
syāt
is
mama
my
ājñayā
by command

Meaning

The text's rules of the classes.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he tells the expiation of brāhmaṇas and the rest who eat the food of kṣatriyas and the rest in order, with "anuloma" and the rest. O beloved, having eaten once the food of the classes in the natural order (anuloma), brāhmaṇas and the rest are purified by fasting three days, by my command: as a brāhmaṇa eating the food of a kṣatriya, and so on.