सुराभेदकथनम्The kinds of wine
Verse 4
येन केन समुत्पन्ना येन केनाऽऽहृताऽपि वा । नात्र जातिविभेदोऽस्ति शोधिता सर्वसिद्धिदा ॥ ४ ॥
yēna kēna samutpannā yēna kēnā’’hṛtā’pi vā | nātra jātivibhēdō’sti śōdhitā sarvasiddhidā || 4 ||
Translation
By whomever it was made and by whomever it was brought, here there is no distinction of caste: once purified, it grants every success.
Word by word
- yēna
- by whom
- kēna
- ever
- samutpannā
- produced
- āhṛtā
- brought
- api
- also
- vā
- or
- na
- no
- atra
- here
- jāti
- caste
- vibhēdō
- (vibhedaḥ) distinction
- asti
- there is
- śōdhitā
- purified
- sarva
- every
- siddhi
- success
- dā
- granting
Meaning
The commentary: "here" means in the matter of wine. Who made or brought it does not matter; only its purification (the rites of chapter 5) does.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Āhṛtā: brought. Atra: here, in the matter of wine (there is no distinction of caste, of who made or brought it).