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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.150

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 150

उपवासनियमःThe rule of fasting

Verse 150

पिबंस्तोयाञ्जलिञ्चैकं भक्षन्नपि समीरणम् । मानवः प्राणरक्षार्थं न भ्रश्येदुपवासतः ॥ १५० ॥

pibaṁstōyāñjaliñcaikaṁ bhakṣannapi samīraṇam | mānavaḥ prāṇarakṣārthaṁ na bhraśyēdupavāsataḥ || 150 ||

Translation

Drinking one palmful of water, or even taking in air, to preserve his life, a man does not fall from the fast.

Word by word

pibaṁs
(piban) drinking
tōya
of water
añjalim
(añjalim) a palmful
ca
and
ēkaṁ
one
bhakṣan
(bhakṣan) taking in
api
even
samīraṇam
(samīraṇam) air
mānavaḥ
(mānavaḥ) a man
prāṇa
life
rakṣā
preserving
arthaṁ
for
na
not
bhraśyēt
(bhraśyet) falls
upavāsataḥ
(upavāsataḥ) from the fast

Meaning

The fast is not broken by water to stay alive.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now, telling that a fast is not destroyed by drinking one palmful of water, he says "piban". A man who, to save his life, drinks one palmful of water, or even eats air (samīraṇa), does not fall from the fast. The truth is that a fast is not destroyed by drinking one palmful of water.