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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.156

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 156

महारोगादौ प्रायश्चित्तम्Expiation in grave illness and the like

Verse 156

अपघातमृतेनापि दूषितं विद्युदग्निना । गृहं विशोधयेद्धोमैर्व्याहृत्या शतसंख्यकैः ॥ १५६ ॥

apaghātamṛtēnāpi dūṣitaṁ vidyudagninā | gṛhaṁ viśōdhayēddhōmairvyāhṛtyā śatasaṁkhyakaiḥ || 156 ||

Translation

A house defiled by a violent death, or struck by lightning, should be purified with a hundred homas of the vyāhṛtis.

Word by word

apaghāta
violent death
mṛtēna
by one who died
api
also
dūṣitaṁ
defiled
vidyut
(vidyut) lightning
agninā
by fire
gṛhaṁ
a house
viśōdhayēt
(viśodhayet) should purify
hōmaiḥ
(homaiḥ) with homas
vyāhṛtyā
of the vyāhṛtis
śata
a hundred
saṁkhyakaiḥ
in number

Meaning

The house itself is purified.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

But how is a house purified that has been defiled by one who died a violent death and by lightning? To that he says "apaghāta" and the rest. A house defiled by one who died by an apaghāta, an untimely death, by snake, tiger, hanging and the like, and also by lightning (vidyud-agni), should be purified by a hundred homas with the vyāhṛtis, bhūr and the rest.