मूढो मन्मतमुत्सृज्य योऽन्यन्मतमुपाश्रयेत् । ब्रह्महा पितृहा स्त्रीघ्नः स भवेन्नात्र संशयः ॥ १३ ॥
mūḍhō manmatamutsṛjya yō’nyanmatamupāśrayēt | brahmahā pitṛhā strīghnaḥ sa bhavēnnātra saṁśayaḥ || 13 ||
Translation
The fool who abandons my teaching and takes refuge in another becomes as one who kills a brāhmaṇa, his father or a woman: of this there is no doubt.
Word by word
- mūḍhō
- the fool
- manmatamutsṛjya
- abandoning my teaching
- yō’nyanmatamupāśrayēt
- who takes refuge in another teaching
- brahmahā
- slayer of a brāhmaṇa
- pitṛhā
- slayer of his father
- strīghnaḥ
- slayer of a woman
- sa
- he
- bhavēnnātra
- becomes; here there is no
- saṁśayaḥ
- doubt
Meaning
The comparison with the gravest sins measures the seriousness of the claim, not a legal ruling.