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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.155

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 155

महारोगादौ प्रायश्चित्तम्Expiation in grave illness and the like

Verse 155

महारोगान्विता ये च ये नराश्चिररोगिणः । स्वर्णदानेन पूताः स्युर्दैवे पैत्र्येऽधिकारिणः ॥ १५५ ॥

mahārōgānvitā yē ca yē narāścirarōgiṇaḥ | svarṇadānēna pūtāḥ syurdaivē paitryē’dhikāriṇaḥ || 155 ||

Translation

Those with great diseases and those long ill are purified by a gift of gold and become fit for the rites of gods and ancestors.

Word by word

mahārōga
great diseases
anvitāḥ
(anvitāḥ) with
yē
those who
ca
and
narāḥ
(narāḥ) men
cirarōgiṇaḥ
(cirarogiṇaḥ) long ill
svarṇa
of gold
dānēna
by a gift
pūtāḥ
(pūtāḥ) purified
syuḥ
are
daivē
for gods
paitryē
and ancestors
adhikāriṇaḥ
(adhikāriṇaḥ) fit

Meaning

Illness does not exclude one from worship.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he says that even those afflicted with great diseases such as leprosy, and the chronically ill, being purified by a gift of gold, are fit for the rites of gods and ancestors, with "mahāroga" and the rest. Men afflicted with great diseases, and those long ill, being purified by a gift of gold, are fit for the rites for the gods and the ancestors.