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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.17

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 17

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

Verse 17

प्रायश्चित्त्याऽथवा दण्डैर्न पूता ये कृतांहसः । नरकान्न निवर्त्तन्ते इहामुत्र विगर्हिताः ॥ १७ ॥

prāyaścittyā’thavā daṇḍairna pūtā yē kṛtāṁhasaḥ | narakānna nivarttantē ihāmutra vigarhitāḥ || 17 ||

Translation

Those who have sinned and are not made pure by expiation or by punishments are blamed here and hereafter, and do not return from hell.

Word by word

prāyaścittyā
by expiation
athavā
or
daṇḍaiḥ
(daṇḍaiḥ) by punishments
na
not
pūtāḥ
(pūtāḥ) made pure
yē
those who
kṛtāṁhasaḥ
(kṛtāṁhasaḥ) have sinned
narakāt
(narakāt) from hell
nivarttantē
return
ihāmutra
here and hereafter
vigarhitāḥ
(vigarhitāḥ) blamed

Meaning

Unexpiated sin binds.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

To show that those whose two kinds of sin have arisen remain forever in hell if they are not purified by expiation and punishment, he says "prāyaścittyā". Those sinful people (kṛtāṁhas) who have not been made pure by expiation or by punishments, blamed in this world and the next, do not return from hell, but stay there: that is the sense.