महापीठादौ स्पर्शदोषाद्यभावःNo fault of touch at the great seats
Verse 106
अतो बहुविधं कर्म कथितं साधनान्वितम् । प्रवृत्तयेऽल्पबोधानां दुश्चेष्टितनिवृत्तये ॥ १०६ ॥
atō bahuvidhaṁ karma kathitaṁ sādhanānvitam | pravṛttayē’lpabōdhānāṁ duścēṣṭitanivṛttayē || 106 ||
Translation
Therefore many kinds of act have been told, with their means, to engage those of small understanding and to turn them from wrongdoing.
Word by word
- atō
- (ataḥ) therefore
- bahu
- many
- vidhaṁ
- kinds
- karma
- of act
- kathitaṁ
- told
- sādhana
- means
- anvitam
- (anvitam) with
- pravṛttayē
- to engage
- alpa
- small
- bōdhānāṁ
- of those whose understanding
- duś
- (duḥ) wrong
- cēṣṭita
- doing
- nivṛttayē
- to turn from
Meaning
Here the text says why so many rites have been taught. They are for people who are not yet able to do without them: they give direction to the active nature and draw it from harm. It is a frank account of its own earlier chapters.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 100.