गृहस्थकर्त्तव्यानिThe duties of the householder
Verse 32
विद्याधनमदोन्मत्तो यः कुर्यात् पितृहेलनम् । स याति नरकं घोरं सर्वधर्मवहिष्कृतः ॥ ३२ ॥
vidyādhanamadōnmattō yaḥ kuryāt pitṛhēlanam | sa yāti narakaṁ ghōraṁ sarvadharmavahiṣkṛtaḥ || 32 ||
Translation
He who, drunk with the pride of learning or wealth, holds his parents in contempt, goes to a terrible hell, cast out from every dharma.
Word by word
- vidyā
- of learning
- dhana
- or wealth
- mada
- with the pride
- unmattō
- (unmattaḥ) drunk
- yaḥ
- he who
- kuryāt
- holds
- pitṛ
- his parents
- hēlanam
- in contempt
- sa
- (saḥ) he
- yāti
- goes
- narakaṁ
- to a hell
- ghōraṁ
- terrible
- sarva
- from every
- dharma
- dharma
- vahiṣkṛtaḥ
- (bahiṣkṛtaḥ) cast out
Meaning
Learning and wealth are the two things most likely to make a grown child look down on simple or ageing parents. The commentary glosses "pitṛ-helana" as contempt for mother and father. Such a person is "outside every dharma" (sarva-dharma-bahiṣkṛta): whatever else he does, rites, gifts, study, counts for nothing. The text spells the word vahiṣkṛtaḥ, with v for b, as it often does.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Pitṛ-helanam: contempt for mother and father. (This explanation covers verses 32 and 33.)