दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 71
अशौचाभ्यन्तरे यस्मिन्नशौचान्तरमापतेत् । गुर्वशौचेन मर्त्यानां शुद्धिस्तत्र विधीयते ॥ ७१ ॥
aśaucābhyantarē yasminnaśaucāntaramāpatēt | gurvaśaucēna martyānāṁ śuddhistatra vidhīyatē || 71 ||
Translation
When within one impurity another impurity falls, men are purified by the heavier impurity.
Word by word
- aśauca
- an impurity; impurity
- abhyantarē
- within
- yasmin
- which
- antaram
- (antaram) another
- āpatēt
- falls
- guru
- by the heavier
- martyānāṁ
- of men
- śuddhiḥ
- (śuddhiḥ) purification
- tatra
- there
- vidhīyatē
- is ordained
Meaning
Overlapping impurities are not added together: the one that covers more days absorbs the other.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
When one impurity is running and, before its remaining days are over, another impurity of a different length falls, men are purified by the impurity that covers more days: this he tells with "aśaucābhyantare" and the rest. Within whatever impurity, in the course of which another impurity, covering an unequal time, falls, comes, then, when that impurity has arisen, the purification of men is ordained by the heavier impurity, the one that covers more days, as it passes.