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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.16

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 16

द्विविधपापमोचने द्विविधोपायःThe two means of release from the two kinds of sin

Verse 16

परानिष्टकरात् पापात् मुच्यते राजशासनात् । अन्यस्मान्मुच्यते मर्त्यः प्रायश्चित्त्या समाधिना ॥ १६ ॥

parāniṣṭakarāt pāpāt mucyatē rājaśāsanāt | anyasmānmucyatē martyaḥ prāyaścittyā samādhinā || 16 ||

Translation

From sin that harms others a man is freed by the king's punishment; from the other, by expiation and by inner restraint.

Word by word

para
others
aniṣṭa
harm
karāt
(karāt) that does
pāpāt
(pāpāt) from sin
mucyatē
is freed
rāja
the king's
śāsanāt
(śāsanāt) by the punishment
anyasmāt
(anyasmāt) from the other
martyaḥ
(martyaḥ) a man
prāyaścittyā
by expiation
samādhinā
by inner restraint

Meaning

Crimes against others are a matter for the state; private faults for the conscience, through prāyaścitta (expiation) and samādhi, which the ṭīkā explains as the stilling of the movements of the mind.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Having shown the arising of the two kinds of sin, he now tells the means of release from them, with "parāniṣṭa" and the rest. From the sin that does harm to others, causing what they do not wish, a man is freed by the king's punishment (rājadaṇḍa): becomes freed. ("Mucyate" is the karmakartari present.) But from the other, the sin that causes harm only to oneself, he is freed by expiation (prāyaścitti), by prāyaścitta, and by samādhi, the restraint of the movements of the mind.