पूर्णशैवावधूतस्य नित्यनैमित्तिकक्रियानधिकारःThe complete Śaiva avadhūta has no duty of regular rites
Verse 166
शैवावधूतसंस्कारविधूताखिलकर्मणः । नापि दैवे न वा पित्रे नार्षे कृत्येऽधिकारिता ॥ १६६ ॥
śaivāvadhūtasaṁskāravidhūtākhilakarmaṇaḥ | nāpi daivē na vā pitrē nārṣē kṛtyē’dhikāritā || 166 ||
Translation
For one whose every act has been shaken off by the rite of the Śaiva avadhūta, there is no competence for rites of the gods, of the ancestors or of the sages.
Word by word
- śaiva
- Śaiva
- avadhūta
- (avadhūta) of the avadhūta
- saṁskāra
- by the rite
- vidhūta
- shaken off
- akhila
- (akhila) every
- karmaṇaḥ
- whose act
- na
- no
- api
- (api) even
- daivē
- of the gods
- vā
- or
- pitrē
- of the ancestors
- ārṣē
- (ārṣe) of the sages
- kṛtyē
- in the rite
- adhikāritā
- competence
Meaning
The heading names this as the complete Śaiva avadhūta's freedom from the daily and occasional rites. The three kinds named are the three debts of the tradition, to the gods, to the ancestors and to the sages, and he no longer owes them.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 161.