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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.147

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 147

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

Verse 147

वित्तार्थी मानवो देशानखिलान् गन्तुमर्हति । निषिद्धकौलिकाचारं देशं शास्त्रमपि त्यजेत् ॥ १४७ ॥

vittārthī mānavō dēśānakhilān gantumarhati | niṣiddhakaulikācāraṁ dēśaṁ śāstramapi tyajēt || 147 ||

Translation

A man seeking wealth may go to every country; but a country where Kaula conduct is forbidden, and such a scripture, he should shun.

Word by word

vitta
wealth
arthī
seeking
mānavaḥ
(mānavaḥ) a man
dēśān
countries
akhilān
every
gantum
(gantum) to go
arhati
may
niṣiddha
forbidden
kaulika
Kaula
ācāraṁ
where conduct is
dēśaṁ
a country
śāstram
(śāstram) scripture
api
also
tyajēt
should shun

Meaning

Where the kula way is forbidden one cannot live by it.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he says that a man who may go to all countries for the sake of wealth is not fit to travel in a country without Kaula conduct, with "vittārthī" and the rest. A man who seeks wealth may go to all countries; but a country where the conduct of the Kaulas is forbidden, and such a śāstra too, a man should abandon.