Sacred Texts
Mahānirvāṇa Tantra cover

॥ श्री ॥tantraFor reading

Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.54

Traditional

Ullāsas
14
Verses
2517
Minutes
1258
Level
advanced

Ullāsa 11 · Verse 54

उपपतौ रममाणां पत्नीं पश्यन् तयोर्विनाशे दण्डाभावःNo punishment for a husband who kills wife and lover caught together

Verse 54

भर्त्तुर्निवारणं यत्र गमने येन भाषणे । प्रयाणाद्भाषणात्तत्र त्यागार्हा स्यात् कुलाङ्गना ॥ ५४ ॥

bhartturnivāraṇaṁ yatra gamanē yēna bhāṣaṇē | prayāṇādbhāṣaṇāttatra tyāgārhā syāt kulāṅganā || 54 ||

Translation

Where the husband has forbidden her going, or her speaking with someone, by going there or speaking even a kula woman deserves to be left.

Word by word

bharttuḥ
(bhartuḥ) of the husband
nivāraṇaṁ
forbidding
yatra
where
gamanē
in going
yēna
with whom
bhāṣaṇē
in speaking
prayāṇāt
(prayāṇāt) by going
bhāṣaṇāt
(bhāṣaṇāt) by speaking
tatra
there
tyāga
to be left
arhā
deserving
syāt
is
kulāṅganā
a kula woman

Meaning

Disobedience in these matters, in the text's scheme, warrants separation.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he declares a woman deserving to be abandoned who goes to a place forbidden by her husband and speaks with a man forbidden to her, with "bhartuḥ" and the rest. Where the husband has forbidden her going to a place, and her speaking with a man, by going there and by speaking with him even a kula woman deserves to be abandoned.