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Upanishads · Dattātreya 3.5
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Devanāgarī
ब्रह्महत्यादिपातकैर्मुक्तो भवति । गोहत्यादिपातकैर्मुक्तो भवति । तुलापुरुषादिदानैः प्रपापानतः पूतो भवति । अशेषपापान्मुक्तो भवति । भक्ष्याभक्ष्यपापैर्मुक्तो भवति
Transliteration (IAST)
brahmahatyādipātakairmukto bhavati | gohatyādipātakairmukto bhavati | tulāpuruṣādidānaiḥ prapāpānataḥ pūto bhavati | aśeṣapāpānmukto bhavati | bhakṣyābhakṣyapāpairmukto bhavati
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SanskritIASTMeaning
ब्रह्म-हत्या-आदि-पातकैः मुक्तः भवतिbrahma-hatyā-ādi-pātakaiḥ muktaḥ bhavatihe is freed from sins beginning with the killing of a brāhmaṇa
गो-हत्या-आदि-पातकैः मुक्तः भवतिgo-hatyā-ādi-pātakaiḥ muktaḥ bhavatihe is freed from sins beginning with the killing of a cow
तुला-पुरुष-आदि-दानैःtulā-puruṣa-ādi-dānaiḥby gifts such as "the man on the scale"
प्रपापानतः पूतः भवतिprapāpānataḥ pūtaḥ bhavatihe becomes purified from sins
अ-शेष-पापात् मुक्तः भवतिa-śeṣa-pāpāt muktaḥ bhavatihe is freed from sin without remainder
भक्ष्य-अ-भक्ष्य-पापैः मुक्तः भवतिbhakṣya-a-bhakṣya-pāpaiḥ muktaḥ bhavatihe is freed from the sins of the edible and the inedible
Translation
«He is freed from sins beginning with the killing of a brāhmaṇa; he is freed from sins beginning with the killing of a cow; by gifts such as "the man on the scale" he becomes purified from sins; he is freed from sin without remainder; he is freed from the sins of the edible and the inedible».
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A list of purifications, the same as we examined reading the Varāha (5.p) and the Hayagrīva (2.p6); let us briefly repeat the caveat, for it is obligatory. Read literally and taken in advance, such a promise becomes a license; and the Bhāgavatam's caveat (6.2.10) about one who sins nāmno balāt, “on the strength of the name,” is the only defense against such a reading. Let us add what in this list deserves separate examination: tulā-puruṣa-ādi-dānaiḥ, “by gifts such as ‘the man on the scale.’”
Tulā-puruṣa is a rite in which the giver sat on a scale, and gold was placed on the other pan, all of it to be distributed. This rite was performed by kings, and it is a model of the costliest possible gift: a person gives as much as he himself weighs. That is, reading this book is equated to what only one king in a thousand could afford.
The sense of such an equation is understandable and, to my mind, kindly: the poor are told they are not left behind. The Vaiṣṇava side holds this as its constant argument; and its verse, cited reading the Varāha (5.10), states that in Kali there is one great virtue: kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṃ vrajet — by singing alone. That is, an age lacking the means for rites also lacks the need for them; and this is not a leniency, but a change in what is measured.