Upaniṣads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 5.14
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Devanāgarī
ग्राम्यारण्यपशुघ्नत्वं संचितं दुरुतं च यत् । मद्यपानेन यत्पापं तदप्याशु विनाशयेत्
Transliteración (IAST)
grāmyāraṇyapaśughnatvaṃ saṃcitaṃ durutaṃ ca yat | madyapānena yatpāpaṃ tadapyāśu vināśayet
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ग्राम्यारण्यपशुघ्नत्वम्grāmyāraṇyapaśughnatvamthe slaying of tame and forest beasts; the killing of village and wild animals
संचितम् दुरितम् च यत्saṃcitam duritam ca yatand what evil is stored up; and every gathered transgression
मद्यपानेन यत् पापम्madyapānena yat pāpamwhat sin comes from drinking liquor; what taint is from wine
तत् अपि आशु विनाशयेत्tat api āśu vināśayetthat too it will swiftly destroy; this too it will soon annihilate
Traducción
“The slaying of tame and forest beasts, and every stored-up evil, and the sin from drinking liquor — that too it will swiftly destroy.”
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The list returns to the sins and names two that stand together not by chance: the killing of animals and wine.
Both are examined at length in the dharma-śāstras, and both belong to the class where a man harms not another person but himself and the order of life.
The word saṁcita — “stored up” — also deserves note. It means that stock of consequences gathered over past lives which has not yet begun to bear fruit.
In the doctrine of karma three stores are distinguished: the gathered, that which has begun to fruit, and that being made now. Here the first is named — the one a man cannot approach by any effort, because he does not remember it.
This is why lists of this kind are needed at all. What is done today can be mended; what is gathered over former births cannot.
The eighth chapter of the uttara has already explained the name of the river Varaṇā: “it wards off all faults done in other births.”
Here the same thought, but the means too is named.