दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 82
लिङ्गच्छेदो दमो येषां यासां नासानिकृन्तनम् । महापातकिनाञ्चापि मृतौ नाऽशौचमाचरेत् ॥ ८२ ॥
liṅgacchēdō damō yēṣāṁ yāsāṁ nāsānikṛntanam | mahāpātakināñcāpi mṛtau nā’śaucamācarēt || 82 ||
Translation
For men punished by cutting off the liṅga, women punished by cutting off the nose, and the great sinners, no impurity is kept at their death.
Word by word
- liṅga
- of the liṅga
- chēdaḥ
- (chedaḥ) cutting off
- damaḥ
- (damaḥ) the punishment
- yēṣāṁ
- of whom
- yāsāṁ
- of whom (women)
- nāsā
- of the nose
- nikṛntanam
- (nikṛntanam) cutting off
- mahāpātakināṁ
- of the great sinners
- ca
- and
- api
- also
- mṛtau
- at the death
- na
- not
- aśaucam
- (aśaucam) impurity
- ācarēt
- one should keep
Meaning
Those whom the king's law of chapter 11 has punished with mutilation, and the great sinners (mahāpātakin), such as the slayer of a brāhmaṇa, are not mourned by the rites of impurity.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
At the death of women whose offence is punished by cutting off the nose, of men whose offence is punished by cutting off the liṅga, and of the great sinners, no impurity is to be kept: this he tells with "liṅgacchedaḥ" and the rest. Of those men for whom cutting off the liṅga, cutting off the penis, is the punishment (dama, daṇḍa) ordained, of those women for whom cutting off the nose is the punishment, and of the great sinners (mahāpātakin), the slayers of a brāhmaṇa and the rest, at their death one should not keep, should not observe, impurity.