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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.51

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 51

स्वगुह्याङ्गप्रदर्शने दण्डःShowing one's own nakedness

Verse 51

पत्न्याः पराभिगमनं प्रमाणयति चेत् पतिः । नृपस्तदा तां तज्जारं शास्यात् शास्त्रानुसारतः ॥ ५१ ॥

patnyāḥ parābhigamanaṁ pramāṇayati cēt patiḥ | nṛpastadā tāṁ tajjāraṁ śāsyāt śāstrānusārataḥ || 51 ||

Translation

If a husband proves his wife's going to another man, the king should punish her and her lover according to the law.

Word by word

patnyāḥ
(patnyāḥ) of the wife
para
to another
abhigamanaṁ
going
pramāṇayati
proves
cēt
if
patiḥ
(patiḥ) the husband
nṛpaḥ
(nṛpaḥ) the king
tadā
then
tāṁ
her
tat
her
jāraṁ
lover
śāsyāt
should punish
śāstra
the law
anusārataḥ
according to

Meaning

Adultery proved is a public matter. These are the penalties of the Tantra's own ideal kingdom, given as the text states them; they describe its teaching, not any present law.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he tells the punishment of a wife whose going to another man is proved by her own husband, and of her lover, with "patnyāḥ" and the rest. If the husband proves his wife's going to another man, then the king should punish her and her lover according to the śāstra, by the procedure told before.