Shiva Purana

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कर्तारस्तपसां भूयो द्विजतेजोपहारकाः । शिश्वल्पमृत्युकाराश्च मंत्रोच्चारपरायणाः २६ ।

sanskrit

In their eagerness to appropriate a brahmanical splendour they frequently perform penances. They cause infantile and premature deaths by their chanting of mantras.

english translation

kartArastapasAM bhUyo dvijatejopahArakAH | zizvalpamRtyukArAzca maMtroccAraparAyaNAH 26 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/27

शालिग्रामशिलादीनां पूजकाहोमतत्पराः । प्रतिकूलविचाराश्च कुटिला द्विजदूषकाः २७ ।

sanskrit

They worship the Śālagrāma stone and other things; they evince some interest in Homas too but in their thoughts and actions they are crooked and antagonistic; they calumniate the brahmins.

english translation

zAligrAmazilAdInAM pUjakAhomatatparAH | pratikUlavicArAzca kuTilA dvijadUSakAH 27 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/28

धनवंतः कुकर्म्माणो विद्यावन्तो विवादिनः । आख्यायोपासना धर्मवक्तारो धर्मलोपकाः २८ ।

sanskrit

Rich people indulge in misdeeds; learned people take perpetual delight in disputations; those who conduct discourses in holy narratives and expound virtuous rites of worship, themselves abandon virtuous practice of the same.

english translation

dhanavaMtaH kukarmmANo vidyAvanto vivAdinaH | AkhyAyopAsanA dharmavaktAro dharmalopakAH 28 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/29

सुभूपाकृतयो दंभाः सुदातारो महामदाः । विप्रादीन्सेवकान्मत्वा मन्यमाना निजं प्रभुम् २९ ।

sanskrit

Haughty persons assume the features of noble kings; those who liberally give, do so with a lot of fuss and haughtiness thinking themselves to be great lords and treating the brahmins and others as their servants.

english translation

subhUpAkRtayo daMbhAH sudAtAro mahAmadAH | viprAdInsevakAnmatvA manyamAnA nijaM prabhum 29 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/30

स्वधर्मरहिता मूढाः संकराः क्रूरबुद्धयः । महाभिमानिनो नित्यं चतुर्वर्णविलोपकाः 1.1.३० ।

sanskrit

Devoid of the strict observance of their traditional duties and virtues, the foolish people have brought about an admixture of various castes. Cruel in thought and obsessed by false prestiges, people have discarded the four-fold system of social classification.

english translation

svadharmarahitA mUDhAH saMkarAH krUrabuddhayaH | mahAbhimAnino nityaM caturvarNavilopakAH 1.1.30 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/26

कर्तारस्तपसां भूयो द्विजतेजोपहारकाः । शिश्वल्पमृत्युकाराश्च मंत्रोच्चारपरायणाः २६ ।

sanskrit

In their eagerness to appropriate a brahmanical splendour they frequently perform penances. They cause infantile and premature deaths by their chanting of mantras.

english translation

kartArastapasAM bhUyo dvijatejopahArakAH | zizvalpamRtyukArAzca maMtroccAraparAyaNAH 26 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/27

शालिग्रामशिलादीनां पूजकाहोमतत्पराः । प्रतिकूलविचाराश्च कुटिला द्विजदूषकाः २७ ।

sanskrit

They worship the Śālagrāma stone and other things; they evince some interest in Homas too but in their thoughts and actions they are crooked and antagonistic; they calumniate the brahmins.

english translation

zAligrAmazilAdInAM pUjakAhomatatparAH | pratikUlavicArAzca kuTilA dvijadUSakAH 27 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/28

धनवंतः कुकर्म्माणो विद्यावन्तो विवादिनः । आख्यायोपासना धर्मवक्तारो धर्मलोपकाः २८ ।

sanskrit

Rich people indulge in misdeeds; learned people take perpetual delight in disputations; those who conduct discourses in holy narratives and expound virtuous rites of worship, themselves abandon virtuous practice of the same.

english translation

dhanavaMtaH kukarmmANo vidyAvanto vivAdinaH | AkhyAyopAsanA dharmavaktAro dharmalopakAH 28 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/29

सुभूपाकृतयो दंभाः सुदातारो महामदाः । विप्रादीन्सेवकान्मत्वा मन्यमाना निजं प्रभुम् २९ ।

sanskrit

Haughty persons assume the features of noble kings; those who liberally give, do so with a lot of fuss and haughtiness thinking themselves to be great lords and treating the brahmins and others as their servants.

english translation

subhUpAkRtayo daMbhAH sudAtAro mahAmadAH | viprAdInsevakAnmatvA manyamAnA nijaM prabhum 29 |

hk transliteration

siva.sh/siva-purana/vidyesvara-samhita/1/30

स्वधर्मरहिता मूढाः संकराः क्रूरबुद्धयः । महाभिमानिनो नित्यं चतुर्वर्णविलोपकाः 1.1.३० ।

sanskrit

Devoid of the strict observance of their traditional duties and virtues, the foolish people have brought about an admixture of various castes. Cruel in thought and obsessed by false prestiges, people have discarded the four-fold system of social classification.

english translation

svadharmarahitA mUDhAH saMkarAH krUrabuddhayaH | mahAbhimAnino nityaM caturvarNavilopakAH 1.1.30 |

hk transliteration