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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.161

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 161

दुष्टवापीकूपादिसंस्कारःPurifying defiled wells and tanks

Verse 161

यद्येवं शोधिता न स्युर्मृतस्पृष्टजलाशयाः । अपेयसलिलास्तेषां प्रतिष्ठामपि नाचरेत् ॥ १६१ ॥

yadyēvaṁ śōdhitā na syurmṛtaspṛṣṭajalāśayāḥ | apēyasalilāstēṣāṁ pratiṣṭhāmapi nācarēt || 161 ||

Translation

If reservoirs touched by the dead are not so purified, their water is undrinkable, and one should not consecrate them.

Word by word

yadi
if
ēvaṁ
so
śōdhitāḥ
(śodhitāḥ) purified
na
not
syuḥ
are
mṛta
by the dead
spṛṣṭa
touched
jalāśayāḥ
(jalāśayāḥ) reservoirs
apēya
undrinkable
salilāḥ
(salilāḥ) water
tēṣāṁ
their
pratiṣṭhām
(pratiṣṭhām) consecration
api
also
ācarēt
should do

Meaning

Public health in the language of purity.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he says that unpurified step-wells and the like have undrinkable water and are not fit for consecration (pratiṣṭhā), with "yadi" and the rest. If reservoirs touched by the dead, step-wells and the like touched by a corpse, are not so purified, then their water is undrinkable; and one should not perform their consecration either.