तमेकं देवताश्रेष्ठं संप्राप्ते हरिवासरे
When the day of Hari arrives, I approach that one, the highest among the gods.
स मे शत्रुर्महान्देव तेन लुप्तः पटो मम
He is my great enemy, O god; because of him, my garment was lost.
कृतकृत्यो भविष्यामि गयापिण्डप्रदो यथा
I shall become accomplished, as one who gives the funeral offering at Gaya.
उपोषितः स्तुतोवापि न नियम्या मया हि ते
Whether fasting or praised, they are not to be restrained by me.
सौतिरुवाच
The sūta said:
र्चितयामास देवेशो विरिञ्चिः कुशलाञ्छनः
The lord of the gods, Virinchi, skilled in creation, fashioned them.
भूतत्रासनमात्रं तु रूपं स जगृहे विभुः
The mighty one assumed a form solely to instill fear among beings.
सर्वयोषिद्वरा देवीमनसा निर्भिता बभौ
The goddess, foremost among all women, shone, her mind unshaken.
दृष्ट्वा पितामहस्तां तु रूपद्रविणसंयुताम्
Seeing her, adorned with beauty and wealth, the grandsire gazed upon her.
प्रत्यवायभयाद्ब्रह्या चक्षुषी संन्यमीलयत्
Out of fear of sin, Brahmā closed his eyes.
चिन्तयेद्वीक्षयेद्वापि जननीं वा सुतामपि
If one contemplates or gazes upon one's mother or even one's daughter,
स याति नरकं घोरं संचिन्त्य श्वपचीमपि
He goes to a dreadful hell, even by thinking of a woman of low caste.
तस्य जन्मकृतं पुण्यं वृथा भवति नान्यथा
The merit earned from birth becomes wasted; it cannot be otherwise.
पुण्यस्य संक्षयात्पापी पाषाणाखुर्भवेद्ध्रुवम्
With the depletion of merit, the sinner surely becomes as hard as stone.
जनन्या अपि पादौ तु नादेयौ द्वादशाब्दिकैः
Even the feet of one's mother should not be touched by a twelve-year-old.
षष्ट्यतीतां सुतो ऽभ्यङ्गे नियुञ्जीत विचक्षणः
After sixty years, a wise son may perform anointing for her.
उभयोः पतनं प्रोक्तं रौरवे ऽङ्गारसंचये
The fall of both is declared, into Raurava, among heaps of embers.
वधूहस्तेन यः पापः पादशौचं करोति हि
He who, with the hand of a bride, performs the cleansing of feet commits sin.
सूचीमुखैः कृष्णवक्त्रोर्भुज्यते कल्पसंस्थितिम्
He is devoured by black-faced beings with needle-like mouths for a kalpa.
साभिलाषेण मनसा तत्क्षणात्पतते नरः
With desire in the mind, a man falls at that very moment.
यदिदं वर्तुलं वक्त्रं सोन्नतं दृश्यते शुभम्
Whenever this round, elevated, auspicious face is seen,
वसा मेदो ऽथ नयने सोज्वले स्त्रीषु संस्थिते
Fat, marrow, and the eyes shining brightly are found among women.
निम्नांशतां दर्शयति त्रिवली जठरस्थिता
The three folds at the waist, situated on the belly, display its downward curve.
मूत्रद्वारमिदं गुह्यं यत्र मुग्धं जगत्त्रयम्
This is the secret place, the urinary passage, where the three worlds are deluded.
भस्त्रावर्गाधिकं क्षिप्तं मांसं जघनवर्त्मनि
A mass of flesh, greater than a pair of bellows, is placed at the region of the hips.
शुक्रास्थिपूरितं मांसैः कथं सुन्दरतां व्रजेत्
How can that which is filled with semen and bone, covered with flesh, become beautiful?
विष्ठामूत्रमलैः पुष्टे को देहे रज्यते नरः
Who delights in a body nourished by excrement, urine, and filth?
धैर्यं कृत्वा व नारीं तामुवाच गजगामिनीम्
Then, gathering his courage, he spoke to that woman with the gait of an elephant.
तथा भूतासि चार्वङ्गि मानसोन्मादकारिणी
Thus you are, O lovely-limbed one, a cause of madness in the mind.
पश्य मूच्छान्वतनाथ जगत्स्थावरजङ्गमम्
Behold, O lord of those who have fainted, all the moving and unmoving beings in the world.