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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.144

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 144

व्रतभङ्गे महागुरुनिन्दायाञ्च प्रायश्चित्तम्Expiation for a broken vow and for reviling the great gurus

Verse 144

संकल्पितव्रतापूर्त्तौ देवनिर्माल्यलङ्घने । अशुचौ देवतास्पर्शे गायत्रीजपमाचरेत् ॥ १४४ ॥

saṁkalpitavratāpūrttau dēvanirmālyalaṅghanē | aśucau dēvatāsparśē gāyatrījapamācarēt || 144 ||

Translation

When a resolved vow is left incomplete, when a god's nirmālya is stepped over, when a deity is touched in impurity, he should recite the Gāyatrī.

Word by word

saṁkalpita
resolved
vrata
vow
apūrttau
when incomplete
dēva
of a god
nirmālya
nirmālya
laṅghanē
when stepped over
aśucau
in impurity
dēvatā
a deity
sparśē
when touched
gāyatrī
of the Gāyatrī
japam
(japam) recitation
ācarēt
should do

Meaning

The Gāyatrī cleanses lesser faults.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

But how is a man purified who has not completed a vow he resolved on, who has transgressed the nirmālya of a deity, and who touches a deity while in impurity? To that he says "saṅkalpita" and the rest. When a resolved vow is not completed when the nirmālya of a deity has been transgressed, and when a deity is touched in impurity, during āśauca, he should perform japa of the Gāyatrī. Now, defining the great gurus, he tells the expiation of a man who blames them and speaks harshly, with "mātā" and the rest. The mother, the begetter (the father), and the giver of Brahman (the teacher of the Veda): these are known as the great gurus. A man who reviles these great gurus and speaks harshly to them is purified by five fasts.