स्विष्टिकृद्धोमःThe sviṣṭakṛt offering
Verse 47
प्रायश्चित्तात्मको होमः कलौ नास्ति वरानने । स्विष्टिकृता व्याहृतिभिः प्रायश्चित्तं विधीयते ॥ ४७ ॥
prāyaścittātmakō hōmaḥ kalau nāsti varānanē | sviṣṭikṛtā vyāhṛtibhiḥ prāyaścittaṁ vidhīyatē || 47 ||
Translation
In the Kali age, lovely one, there is no homa made only for expiation; expiation is done by the sviṣṭakṛt and by the vyāhṛtis.
Word by word
- prāyaścitta
- expiation
- ātmakaḥ
- (ātmakaḥ) whose nature is
- hōmaḥ
- (homaḥ) homa
- kalau
- in the Kali age
- na
- not
- asti
- there is
- varānanē
- O lovely one
- sviṣṭikṛtā
- by the sviṣṭakṛt
- vyāhṛtibhiḥ
- by the vyāhṛtis
- prāyaścittaṁ
- expiation
- vidhīyatē
- is done
Meaning
The older rites had a separate prāyaścitta-homa, an expiatory offering for errors. In the Kali age it is dropped; its work is done by the sviṣṭakṛt offering and the homa with the three vyāhṛtis (bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ) that follow.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Prāyaścitta" and the rest. Since in the Kali age there is no homa whose nature is expiation, expiation is laid down by the sviṣṭakṛt homa and by the homa with the vyāhṛtis.