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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.56

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 56

मृतपतिकायाः कर्त्तव्यनिरूपणम्The duties of a widow

Verse 56

द्विर्भोजनं परान्नं च मैथुनामिषभूषणम् । पर्यङ्कं रक्तवासश्च विधवा परिवर्जयेत् ॥ ५६ ॥

dvirbhōjanaṁ parānnaṁ ca maithunāmiṣabhūṣaṇam | paryaṅkaṁ raktavāsaśca vidhavā parivarjayēt || 56 ||

Translation

A widow should give up eating twice a day, others' food, union, meat, ornaments, a bedstead and red cloth.

Word by word

dviḥ
(dviḥ) twice
bhōjanaṁ
eating
para
others'
annaṁ
food
ca
and
maithuna
union
āmiṣa
meat
bhūṣaṇam
(bhūṣaṇam) ornaments
paryaṅkaṁ
a bedstead
rakta
red
vāsaḥ
(vāsaḥ) cloth
vidhavā
a widow
parivarjayēt
should give up

Meaning

The widow's discipline as the text gives it.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Since in the verse just told the duties of a widow are expected, he sets them out in two verses beginning "dvirbhojanam". A widow should give up eating twice a day, another's food, sexual union (maithuna), āmiṣa, meat and the like, ornaments, a bedstead (paryaṅka), and red cloth.