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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.39

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 39

व्यभिचारे दण्डःThe punishment of unlawful union

Verse 39

ब्राह्मणीं विकृतां कृत्वा देशान्निर्यापयेन्नृपः । वीरस्त्रीगामिनां तासामेवमेव दमो विधिः ॥ ३९ ॥

brāhmaṇīṁ vikṛtāṁ kṛtvā dēśānniryāpayēnnṛpaḥ | vīrastrīgāmināṁ tāsāmēvamēva damō vidhiḥ || 39 ||

Translation

The king should disfigure the brāhmaṇa woman and banish her from the country. For those who go to the wives of vīras, and for those wives, the punishment is the same.

Word by word

brāhmaṇīṁ
the brāhmaṇa woman
vikṛtāṁ
disfigured
kṛtvā
having made
dēśāt
(deśāt) from the country
niryāpayēt
should banish
nṛpaḥ
(nṛpaḥ) the king
vīra
of vīras
strī
the wives
gāmināṁ
for those who go to
tāsām
(tāsām) for those women
ēvamēva
the same
damaḥ
(damaḥ) punishment
vidhiḥ
(vidhiḥ) the rule

Meaning

The vīras are initiates of the kula way; their wives are protected as brāhmaṇa women are.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

The king should disfigure (vikṛtā, deprived of a limb) the brāhmaṇa woman too, if consenting, and drive her out of the country. Now he tells the punishment of men who go to the wives of vīras, and of those women: for men who go to the wives of vīras, and for those women if consenting, the punishment is to be laid down in just the same way as before: that is the sense.