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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 1: ****Sri Paraasharah - ****Tapasabhirataan sah atha maayaa moho mahaasuraan | **Maitreya dadrushe gatvaa narmadaa teera samshritaan || All the great asuraas were residing on the banks of Narmadaa river, and were engaged in tapas. Maayaamoha went there and saw all the asuraas engaged in tapas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 2: ****Tato digambaro mundo barhipicchadharo dvija | ****Maayaamoho asuraan shlakshnam idam vachanam abraveet || **Maayaamoha, going as a digambara, not wearing any cloth, and shaving off his head, was wearing a peacock feather. He saw the asuraas and told them in a soft polished way, thus. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 3: ****Maayaamohah - ****He daityapatayo broota yadartham tapyate tapah | ****Ehikaartham nu paaratryam tapasah phalamicchatha || ***Maayaamoha *- O great leaders of the daityaas. Do tell me for what purpose are you doing this tapas. Are you interested in aihika phalaas, or *aamushmika **phalaas *(benefits of the world, or in liberation)? For what purpose are you doing this tapas? **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 4: ****Asuraah - ****Paaratra phala laabhyaaya tapashcharyaa mahaamate | **Asmaabhiriyamaarabdhaa him vaa te atra vivakshitam || *Asuraas *- We are not interested in this aihika phala, we are interested in moksha itself. We want to get liberated. That is why we are doing this tapas. We have started the tapas for this purpose. What do you have to say in this matter. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 5: ****Maayaamoha uvaachaa - ****Kurudhvam mama vaakyaani yadi muktim abheepsatha | **Arhadhvamenam dharmam cha mukti dvaaram asamvrutam || Maayaamoha says - If you are desirous of attaining moksha, follow me, what I am going to say. You become worthy of dharma, that I am going to teach you. Then, for you the path to liberation will be wide open. www.sadagopan.org [[198]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 6: ****Dharmo vimkuteh arho ayam na etasmaat aparo varah | **Atra eva samsthitaayaa svargam vimuktim vaa gamishyatha || This dharma, which I teach you is the one which will get you moksha. There is nothing which is superior to this. Being established in this dharma, that I am going to teach you, you can get liberated very easily. If you want to get svarga also, you can get. Or also, you can get moksha. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Dharma iti | Atra eva - dharme | ****Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 7: ****Arhadhvam dharmetam cha sarve yooyam mahaabalaah || **Become worthy of this dharma, all of you, O powerful asuraas. And follow this. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 8: ****Evam prakaaraih bahubhih yukti(chodana) darshana charchitaih | **Maayaamohena te daityaa vedamaargaat apaakrutaah || In many ways, using powerful logic, discussing with them, he teaches them the dharma, and they all started to believe him. They leave the Veda maarga, and go away from what is told in the Vedaas. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Evam iti | Evam prakaaraih na etat yukti saham ityaadina vivarishyamaanaih | ****Yukti chodana charchitaih tarka aagama kruta vichaaraih | Yukti darshana ****tarkitaih iti paathe, yuktih yogyataa, darshanam pratyaksham, tarkitam tarkah **| There is another paatha - yukti chodana charchitaih. Chodana is vidhi, aagama, using tarka and also shrutis, aagama also. There is another *paatha yukti darshana *tarkitaih, where he discusses, explains to them, and completely overpowers them, and they start to believe him. They leave the path of Vedaas which they were following so far. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 9: ****Dharmaaya etat adharmaaya sat etat na sat iti api | **Vimuktaye tu idam na etat vimuktim samprayacchati || This is the Arhata siddhaanta, Jaina siddhaanta which is going to be told here. This is dharma only, and is also for adharma. This is sat also, and is asat also. This can lead to liberation, and also not lead to liberation. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Dharmaaya iti | Dharmaaya ityaadinaa ekadhaa ityantam vikalpa udaaharana ****saptakam | Saptadhaa hi aneka antavaadinaam aarhataanaam saptabhangee ****syaat vaadah, syaat iti, syaat naasti, syaat asti cha naasti cha, syaat ****anirvachaneeyam, syaat asti cha anirvachaneeyam, syaanaasti cha ****anirvachaneeyam, syaat asti cha naasti cha anirvachaneeyam iti | **This is called Sapta bhangee naya of Jainism. This is called Aarhata pantha, mata. It is called anekaanta vaada. www.sadagopan.org [[199]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 10: ****Paramaartho ayam atyartham paramaartho na cha api ayam | **Kaaryam etat akaaryam cha na etat evam sphutam tu idam || This is the supreme paramaartha, and also not the paramaartha. This has to be done, and this need not be done also. It cannot be said that it is like this, and it can be very clearly said to be like this also. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 11: **Dik vaasa saamayam dharmo dharmo ayam bahuvaasasam || This is the dharma of those who don’t wear any clothes, digambaraas. This is also the dharma for those who wear many clothes. These are the seven *nayaas *- we can say it is there; in some other state, we cannot say that it is in this state only, because it undergoes modifications, keeps changing states; we cannot say that it is undergoing modification or not; we can say that it is there and not there also; or that it is there and we cannot say that it is there; or it is not there, and we cannot say that it is not there; they argue like this. These are also discussed in the Brahma Sutraas, and are refuted by the Sootrakaara. This is what is *anekaanta *vaada. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 12: ****Iti anekaantavaadam cha maayaamohena naikadhaa | **Tena darshayataa daitaah svadharmam tyaajitaa dvija || This is called anekaanta vaada. He started to argue, and taught them this anekaanta vaada; they all started to believe him. They completely gave up their svadharma. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 13: ****Arhataa etam mahaadharmam maayaamohena te yatah | ****Proktaah tamaashritaah dharmamarha(nta)taastena te abhavan || **This is called the great dharma, and you should be worthy of this. This *mahaa *dharma, told by Maayaamoha, they started to follow, and became known to be called as Arhataas, and this is Aarhata dharma. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 14: ****Trayee dharma samutsargam maayaamohena te asuraah | ****Kaaritaah tanmayaah hi aasam tato anye tat prachoditaah || **They gave up the Veda dharma completely, because of the teachings of Maayaamoha, and they were established in Aarhata dharma only, and started to teach these to other asuraas also. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 15: ****Taih api anye parre taih cha taih api anye pare cha taih | **Alpaih ahobhisamyuktaah taih daityaih praayashastrayee || Those asuraas who were first taught by Maayaamoha, taught others, they taught others, they in turn taught others, and like that, it spread to all the asuraas, and in very few days, this trayee dharma (Veda dharma) was completely given up by all the daityaas. ****www.sadagopan.org [[200]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 16: ****Punah cha raktaambaradhrung maayaamoho jitendriyah | **Anyaan aaha aasuraan gatvaa mrudvalpa madhuraaksharam || Maayaamoha wore a red cloth, and controlling his senses, went and taught to other asuraas, in very soft and few words, and pleasing words. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: **Punariti | Punah cha iti bouddha mataarambhah | Now, he starts to teach Bouddha mata. He teaches Aarhata mata, Bouddha mata, and also Chaarvaaka mata to all the asuraas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 17: ****Svargaartham yadi vo vaanchaa nirvaanaartham atha asuraah | **Tat alam pashu ghaata aadi dushta dharmaih nibodhata || O daityaas, if you have desire to attain svarga, or you want to attain moksha, get proper knowledge and be enlightened, and give up these *Veda *dharmaas where pashu ghaata are told, which are all full of himsaa. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 18: ****Vijnyaanamayam eva etat ashesham avagacchata | **Ghudhyadhvam me vachah samyak budhiah evam iha uditam || This is called aatma khyaati paksha, there are many khyaati vaadaas. They are called yogaachaaraas. One of the four groups of Bouddhaas say that everything is vijnyaana only. In a dream, there are no objects really there, but knowledge itself takes the form of all the objects we see in the dream; in the same way, what we see in this world also, everything is not real, and is only knowledge that is taking this form of consciousness, or vijnyaana, and is appearing in various forms that we see. Everything that we see outside is all vijnyaana only, it has taken form like that, is what they argue. Think properly and understand, and get proper knowledge, from what I am teaching you. This is what is taught by enlightened people. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Vijnyaanamayam iti | Tatra vijnyaanamayam iti yogaachaaraanam aatma ****khyaati paksha uktih | ****Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 19: ****Jagat etat anaadhaaram bhraanti jnyaana artha tatparam | ****Raagaadi dushtam atyartham bhraamyate bhava sankate || **This is another group of maadhyamikaas, who propose shoonya khyaati, everything is shoonya. Like when we say rajju sarpa jnyaana, we get knowledge of sarpa in rajju, a serpent is seen in a rope. The serpent is not really there, but the rope appears like a serpent, and we get scared. When someone comes and says that it is not a serpent, but a rope, the fear goes off, and we get the right knowledge. The rope is there, and on the rope, we get the serpent knowledge; the imagination of serpent happens. Serpent is not really there. Rope is the adhishthaana on which the appearance of the serpent happens. But, what www.sadagopan.org [[201]] of 219

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the maadhyamikaas, shoonyavaadis, shoonya khyaati paksha persons say is that the rope is also not there, rope is also bhrame; this is called *niradhishthaana *bhrame; adhishthaana is also not real, it is also bhrame. They say that there is no aadhaara, adhishthaana for this world. Having the defects of desire, hatred, the beings of the world are roaming around (coming and going again and again) in this samsaara that is most painful. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Jagat iti | Jagat etat anaadhaaram iti niradhishthaanou bhraanti jnyaana tat **arthou iti maadhmaikaanaam shoonyakhyaati paksha uktih | Knowledge that appears as objects, and also the knowledge - both are bhrame only, is what they say. This is the shoonya khyaati. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 20: ****Evam budhyata budhyadhvam budhyata evam ateerayan | **Maayaamohah sa daiteyaan dharmam atyaajan nijam || He keeps telling - Be enlightened, get the right knowledge, samyak jnyaana. He makes those asuraas also give up their real dharma, which they were following. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: **Evam iti | Budhyateh aavruttih bouddhatva niruktatyarthaa | The bouddha mata is what is being told. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 21: ****Naanaaprakaara vachanam sa teshaam yukti yojitam | ****Tathaa tathaa avadat dharmam tatyajuh te yathaa yathaa || **He told the same thing in many many ways, using different different logic, various kinds of logic. In such ways that they gave up everything. He taught dharma in different ways, so that they gave up everything. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 22: ****Te api anyeshaam tathaa eva oochuh anyaih anye tathaa uditaah | ****Maitreya tat yajurdharmam veda smruti uditam param || **This also spread. Those asuraas went and taught others. They taught others. The supreme dharma which is taught in the Vedaas, they gave up completely and moved away from the path of Veda. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 23: ****Anyaan api anya paashanda prakaaraih bahubhih dvija | **Daiteyaan mohayaamaasa maayaamohah atimohakrut || He went and caused moha to other asuraas also. Paashandi means one who is away from the Veda dharma, not following the Veda dharma, who does opposite aacharana to what is taught in the Vedaas. He taught everything that is opposed to what is taught in the Vedaas. He started to delude them with this kind of teaching. His words and logic were so pleasing, so convincing, that everyone started to follow him. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 24: ****Svalpena eva hi kaalena maayaamohena te asuraah | **www.sadagopan.org [[202]] of 219

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**Mohitaah tat tyajuh sarvaam trayeemaarga aashritaam kathaam || **They even stopped talking or discussing about the Veda dharmaas, or following it, very soon. They were completely misled and deluded by that Maayaamoha. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 25: ****Kechit vinindaam vedaanaam devaanaam apare dvija | ****Yajnya karma kalaapasya tathaa anye cha dvijanmanaam || **Some started ridiculing the Vedaas, others started ridiculing the devaas, they started ridiculing the yajnya karmaas, some of them started ridiculing, doing nindaa of Brahmins. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 26: ****Na etat yuktisaham vaakyam himsaa dharmaaya cheshyate | ****Haveemshi anala dagdhaani phalaaya iti arbhakoditam || **In Vedaas, the pashu bali is told - " Agnishomeeyam pashum aalabheta", that one has to offer a pashu to Agni and Soma, in a yajnya, which is a himsaa. What is told in the Veda elsewhere is that “You should not cause himsaa to any being” - *Na *himsyaat sarvaa bhootaani. When it is told like this, what they are doing is all himsaa, it is against the Vedaas; the logic is not reasonable, he said. The Vedaas also say that offering a pashu as bali in yajnya, leads to *dharma *- how can this be reasonable, he started arguing. It is also said that if you offer havis through Agni, and aajyaa, ghee, it will all get burnt in the fire - how can it give some phala at a later time - this is all childish talk, he said. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Na iti | Adharmamayee himsaa dharmaaya cheshyate iti vaakyam niryuktikam | ****Neshyate iti paathe etat agnishomeeya pashu himsaa vidhi vaakyam na yukti ****saham | Yato * Na himsyaat sarvaa(ni) bhootaani * iti shrutyaa eva himsaa ****dharmaaya neshyate | **Himsaa will lead to dharma, is told in the *Vedaas *- this is not reasonable. The *vidhi *vaakya told in the Vedaas, cannot be proper, it is unreasonable. Shruti says " *Na *himsyaat sarvaa bhootaani", Shruti says that if we do himsaa, it is adharma, and if we don’t do himsaa, if we don’t injure any being, that is dharma. In another place, it says we have to offer a pashu, that is dharma. Maayaamoha started arguing like this. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 27: ****Yajnyaih anekaih devatvam avaapya indrena bhujyate | ****Shamyaadi yadi chet kaashtham tat varam patrabhuk pashuh || **One who performed a lot of yajnyaas, and became a god, attained devatva. Becoming a god, Indra enjoys all the pleasures in his svarga, because he has done lot of yajnyaas, and has attained that position. What does he eat? Samit and other dry sticks that are offered. If that is what he eats after doing all the yajnyaas, after attaining that position, then the animals which eat the fresh leaves, they are much better compared to Indra. This is what he said. So, Indratva is of no use. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Yajnyaih iti | Shamyaadi iti | Tadvaram svargam gatvaa api sankataka ****shamyaadi kaashtha bhakshakaat tasmaat indraat mrudu tat patram iha eva **www.sadagopan.org [[203]] of 219

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**adan chaago varam - buddhimaan | * Daivaadrute narashreshthe trishu kleebam ****manaak priye * iti amarah | **Having gone to svarga also, instead of eating all the dry sticks offered in yajnya, which is so painful, the leaves which are fresh and soft, which are eaten by the goat here, they are in a better position than Indra. Maayaamoha started arguing like this, with the asuraas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 28: ****Nihatasya pashoh yajnye svarga praaptih yadi eeshyate | ****Sva pitaa yajamaanena kinnu tasmaan na hanyate || **This is what Chaarvaakas say, this is the paashandi mata, the Veda bahishkrutaas, who do Veda viruddha aacharane. If you offer pashu as bali in yajnya, it is said that it goes and attains svarga phala. If that pashu which is offered as bali in yajnya, attains higher and superior worlds, why can’t the yajamaana offer his father himself as pashu in the yajnya? Does he not want his father to attain svarga, to enjoy superior worlds? This is what Maayaamoha taught them. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Nihatasya iti | Yajnye nihatasya pashoh api svarga siddheh tat himsaa na ****doshaaya chet tarhi anyasya pashoh vadha dvaaram sva pituh eva yajnye ****vadhah | Yadeeshyata iti paathe yasmaat evam shrutyeshyate tasmaat tat pitaa ****kim na hanyata iti anvayah | **If it is dharma and is not dosha, instead of offering some other pashu, because it is said " Yajnye vadhah avadhah", then the father can himself be offered., **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 29: ****Trupyate jaayate pumso bhuktam anyena chet tatah | **Dadyaat shraaddham shramaayaannam na vaheyuh pravaasinah || And also in the shraaddha karmaas, we offer bhojana to Brahmins. The Brahmins invited through nimantrana, they eat, and if they are satisfied, then the pitrus who are somewhere else are also satisfied. If someone eats, and someone else gets satisfied, if someone is in some other place, and we send food through them to others, why to take the trouble to carry food to someone in a far off place, why can’t they do shraaddha for them here? This kind of Veda viruddha kind of arguments, he started to teach the asuraas. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Trupyate iti | Anyabhuktam anyasya trupteh jaayate iti krutvaa shraaddham ****kuryaat chet putraadih tarhi, proshitaah shramaavaham annam na vaheyuh, ****graamasthaane kenachit bhukte api proshitasya trupteh | Dadyaat shraaddham ****iti samyak paathah | **If someone eats, and someone else gets satisfied, if one is doing shraaddha with this intention, if we send food to someone, when it is so difficult to carry, you can feed someone else here, do a shraaddha and the other person will get satisfied with that. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 30: **www.sadagopan.org [[204]] of 219

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**Jana shraddhaa iyam iti etat avagamya tatah atra vah | **Upekshaa shreyase vaakyam rochataam yat mayeritam || Maayaamoha told them all these arguments which are against the Vedaas, that these are all andha shraddha, blind belief, whatever is told in the Karma kaanda of the Vedaas, shraaddha, yajnya, and that the Vedic words are all like childish talk. Understanding all these, and knowing thus, then what you have to do is to listen to what I am telling, and just ignore all the Vedaas. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Janashraddheyam iti | Tasmaat etat yaagaadikam yukti heenam praakruta jana ****shraddheyam iti avagamya atra upekshaa shreyase | **Better for you to ignore all these things, thinking that it is all not for you, and these are all childish and unreasonable talk. Like this, he started to argue, and made them move away from the Veda maarga. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 31: ****Na hi aaptavaadaa nabhaso nipatanti maheem suraah | **Yuktmat vachanam graahyam mayaa anyaih cha bhavadvidhaih || Vedaas are said to be aapta vaakya. Rishis are parama aaptaas, and what they have perceived and told are aapta vaakya, we believe in them. Vedaas are apourusheya, they are not created by anybody, they are nitya. He started to argue and tell them that these aapta vaadaas are not fallen from the sky. He said that they have to believe in reasonable talk. He said that they and others have to believe in what he was telling. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Nanu apourusheyatvaat veda vaakyam pramaanam; atah tat uktam yajnyaadi ****anushtheyam na tu tvat uktam iti aashankya vedasya apourusheyatvam eva na ****upapannam iti aaha - na hi iti | Aapta vaadaah - pramaana vaakyaani | **We say that Veda vaakya is pramaana because it is apourusheya, not created by anyone. It is like asking a question - Vedaas are not created by anyone, the yajnyaas and others which are told - should one not follow, as they are *aapta *vaada, if they said that should one not believe in that, Maayaamoha is raising an aakshepa here and is answering them. He said that we cannot establish that Veda is apourusheya itself; how can it fall from the sky? He said that they have to believe words which are reasonable and established through logic. Even I, you and others have to believe that. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 32: ****Maayaamohena te daityaah prakaaraih bahubhih tathaa | ****Vruthaapitaah yathaa naishaam trayeem kashchit arochayat || **Maayaamoha made them move away from the Veda maarga, by so many ways, ridiculing all that is told in the Vedaas, making them believe with such intelligent logic that they completely gave up the Veda maarga, and nobody had any interest in the Vedaas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 33: ****Ittham unmaargayaateshu teshu daiyeshu te amaraah | **Udyogam paramam krutvaa yuddhaaya samupasthitaah || www.sadagopan.org [[205]] of 219

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Unmaarga is the path opposed to what is taught in the Vedaas. All the asuraas started moving in the unmaarga. The gods started preparing for a great war with the asuraas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 34: ****Tato daivaasuram yuddham punareva abhavat dvija | ****Hataah cha te asuraa devaih sanmaarga paripanthinah || **Again, the war between devaas and asuraas happened. All the daityaas were killed by the devaas, because they were opposed to sanmaarga, they were enemies of sanmaarga. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 35: ****Sat dharma kavachah teshaam abhoot yah prathamam dvija | ****Tena rakshaa abhavat poorvam neshuh nashte cha tatra te || **They were protected by the armour of sat dharma, dharma was protecting them as they were following it initially. When that was destroyed, when they left the *Veda *maarga, that protection was gone. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 36: ****Tato maitreya tat maargavartino ye abhavan janaah | ****Nagnaah te taih yatah tyaktam trayee samvaranam yathaa | ****Krutaah cha te asuraa devaih naanaa veda vinindakaah || **In order to tell the nagna lakshana here, this is being taught. Those who have given up the path of Vedaas, and moved away from the teachings of the Veda, they are called nagnaas; this is told here again. O Maitreya, those who are following all the paths taught by Maayaamoha, the Trayee (Veda) dharma which was covering and protecting them, they gave that up, and became known as nagnaas. All those who were ridiculing the Vedaas, they became nagnaas. And they were all defeated by the devaas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 37: ****Brahmachaaree gruhasthah cha vaanaprasthah tathaa aashramee | ****Parivraat vaa chaturtho atra panchamo na upapadyate || **Now, Paraasharar tells about the four *aashramaas - Brahmachaaree, Gruhasta, *Vaanaprastha, Sannyaasa. There is nothing beyond this. **Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Brahmachaaree iti | Aashramee iti brahmacharya aadibhih pratyekam **sambadhyate | Aadi bharatah tu naishthika iti tatra eva darshitah | *Brahmachaaree aashramee, Gruhasta aashramee, Vaanaprastha aashramee, *Sannyaasa aashramee. Aadi Bharata, whose story we saw earlier, is said to be a naishthika brahmachaaree, always a brahmachaaree. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 38: ****Yah tu santyajya gaarhastyam vaanaprastho na jaayate | ****Parivraat vaapi maitreya sa nagnah paapakrut narah || **One who does not leave the gruhastaashrama and become a vaanaprastha, or sannyaasa, he is also called a nagna. This is a sin, he says. ****www.sadagopan.org [[206]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 39: ****Nityaanaam karmanaam vipra yasya haanih aharnisham | **Akurvan vihitam karma shaktah patati tat dine || One who gives up the nitya naimittika karmaas, one day if he does not do, even though he is capable, on the same day, he falls, he becomes a patita. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 40: ****Praayaschittena mahataa shuddhim aapnoti anaapadi | ****Paksham nitya kriyaa haaneh kartaa maitreya maanava || **When there is no aapat kaala, when there is no disease or old age, when he is fully capable, if he gives up the nitya karmaas, he has to do great praayaschittaas to get pure again. If he leaves nitya karma for one paksha, he has to do some great praayaschitta. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 41: ****Samvatsaram kriyaa heenah yasya pumso abhijaayate | **Tasya avalokanaat sooryo nireekshyah saadhubhih sadaa || If one gives up nitya karmaas for a full year; a saadhu, who is properly established in Veda dharmaas, if he sees a person who has given up nitya karmaas for one full year, then that person has to see the Sun to become pure again, because by seeing such a person itself, he will become a sinner. By seeing the Sun, he can get rid of that paapa. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 42: ****Sprushte snaanam sachelam syaat shuddheh hetuh mahaamate | **Pumso bhavati tasya uktaa na shuddhih paapa karmanah || If anyone touches such a person who has given up nitya karma for a year, he has to do a sachela snaana, snaana with the clothes that he is wearing, in order to become pure. For one who does such a paapa, there is no shuddhi at all. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 43: ****Devarshi pitru bhootaani yasya viprasya veshmani | **Prayaantyan architaani atra loke tasmaat na paapakrut || If, in one’s house, deva, rishi, pitru, bhootaas, are not worshipped, and they leave the place without being worshipped, there is no greater sinner than such a person. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 44: ****Devaadi nishvaasahatam shareeram yasya veshma cha | ****Na tena sankaram kuryaat gruhaasana paricchadaih || **If one’s body or house is without devaas, one should not mix with such a person, should not offer a seat to sit down, should not offer some other things. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 45: ****Sambhaashana anuprashna aadi sahaasyaam cha eva kurvatah | ****Jaayate tulyataa tasya tena eva dvija vatsaraat || **Sitting with them, talking to them, having a conversation, enquiring about health, should not be done at all with such a person. If he does that for one year, he will also become like the other person only, he will also become a sinner. ****www.sadagopan.org [[207]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 46: ****Atha bhunkte gruhe tasya karoti aasyaam tathaa aasane | **Shete chaapi eka shayane sa sadyah sah tamo bhavet || If he sits along with him in the same seat, and eats along with him in his house, who does not follow the nitya karmaas, and sleeps along with him, he will immediately become a sinner equal to the other person. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 47: ****Devataa pitru bhootaani tathaa anabhyarchya yah atitheen | **Bhunkte sa paatakam bhunkte nishkrutih tasya neshyate || One who has food without offering and without worshipping the *devataas, pitrus, *bhootaas, or also atithis, he eats sin itself. There is no praayaschitta for such a person. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 48: ****Braahmanaadyaah tu ye varnaah svadharmaat anyato mukhaah | ****Yaanti te nagna sanjyaam tu heena karmasu avasthitaah || **Braahmanaas and others who are not following their varna dharmaas, according to their varna and aashrama, and have turned away from the dharmaas that are ordained for their varnaas, they will also be called as nagnaas only. Because they are established in doing karmaas which are against what is taught in the Vedaas. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 49: ****Chaturnaam yatra varnaanaam maitreya atyanta sankarah | **Tatra asyaa saadhu vrutteenaam upaghaataaya jaayate || Where there is varna saankarya, mixing up of one varna with another, by marriage, etc., those who are doing such things, they destroy the saadhu vruttis, establishment in the righteous path. A person who is following the shaastraas, who is a saadhu should totally avoid such company and places where varna saankarya happens. Those who are not worshipping the gods, and those who are not serving the atithis, as told in the shaastraas, such persons company should be totally avoided by saadhus. They should not even talk to such people, should not spend time in their company, should not sit with them or anything. They are called nagnaas, and this is what *Sri *Paraasharar is explaining. Especially during shraaddha, when one is performing the pitru karma, with great devotion, one should be very careful and take all care to make sure that such a person called nagna, as explained in this chapter, should not be seen by the Brahmins who have been invited there by nimantrana, while they are having food; this is very harmful. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 50: ****Anabhyarchya rusheen devaan pitru bhoota atitheen tathaa | ****Yo bhunkte tasya sallaapaat patanti narake naraah || **One who does not worship the rishis, devaas, pitrus, bhootaas, and also atithis, and offer them food and other things, and show respect, one who eats his food, or has conversation with him, they go to hell. www.sadagopan.org [[208]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 51: ****Tasmaat etaan naro nagnaan trayeen santyaaga dooshitaan | ****Sarvadaa varjayet praajnyah aalaapah sparshanaadishu || **One has to always not converse with such a person, a nagna who is against the Vedaas, not following the Vedic dharmaas, doing everything against what is taught in the Vedaas, they have the defect of the form of giving up the *Vedic *dharmaas; one should always never mix with them at all. Talking with them, conversing with them, touching them, should never be done, should be given up completely. **Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 52: ****Shraddhaavadbhih krutam yatnaat devaan pitru pitaamahaan | **Na preenayati tat shraadham yat ebhih avalokitam || Even those who are having shraddha and all this, if a Brahmin or someone else looks at such a nagna, a person who has given up the Vedic dharmaas, during shraaddha, then the pitru pitaamahaas, devaas, they will never be pleased with what is offered to them in the shraaddha. If a person who is called a nagna comes in sight of them, then it will not please pitrus and devaas in shraaddha. So, Paraasharar is telling about who is a nagna, and related to this, there is a story coming next. We are studying Amsha 3, Chapter 18, where Paraasharar is explaining to Maitreyar the characteristics of one who is called a nagna, one who has given up the varna aashrama dharmaas, and is not following what is told in the shaastraas.

In order to show how harmful it can be, Paraasharar starts to relate a story.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 53: ****Shrooyate cha puraa khyaato raajaa shatadhanuh bhuvi | **Patnee cha shaibyaa tasya abhoot ati dharma paraayanaa || There was a king called Shatadhanu, who was very famous, and there is a story which is very well known. He had a wife by name Shaibyaa. She was established in following the varna aashrama dharmaas perfectly.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 54: ****Pativrataa mahaabhaagaa satya shoucha dayaanvitaa | ****Sarva lakshana sampannaa vinayena nayena cha || **She was very devoted to her husband, and was a very excellent person, always established in truth and shoucha, dayaa. She had all good qualities, she was a wise person, had vinaya, naya.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 55: ****Sa tu raajaa tayaa saardham devadevam janaardanam | **Aaraadhayaamaasa vibhum paramena samaadhinaa || www.sadagopan.org [[209]] of 219

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The king, along with his wife, was worshipping Devadeva Janaardana, with great devotion and concentration.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 56: ****Homaih japaih tathaa daanaih upavaasaih cha bhaktitah | **Poojaabhih cha anudivasam tanmanaa na anya maanasah || Everyday, he was performing with homaas, japaas, daana, upavaasa, and the other vrataas, following them very strictly, performing all the good deeds, he was with great devotion. He was doing this everyday, totally devoted, and dedicated, without thinking of anything else, he, along with his wife, was worshipping Janaardana.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 57: ****Ekadaa tu samam snaatou tou tu bhaaryaapatee jale | ****Bhaageerathyaah samutteerno kaartikyaam samuposhitou | **Paashandinam apashyetaam aayaantam sammukham dvija || One day, on a Kaartika Poornimaa day, the husband and wife took bath together, in the river Gangaa, and were returning. They saw one paashandi who was coming opposite.

Paashandi is one who has given up all the Veda dharmaas, one who is not following what is told in the shaastraas.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 58: ****Chaapaachaaryasya tasya asou sakhaa raajno mahaatmanah | **Atah tat gouravaattena sahaalaapam atha akarot || One thing happened at that time. This king had a Dhanurveda aachaarya, who was teaching him the dhanurveda. That person, the paashandi who was approaching them, was this aachaarya’s friend. To show respect to his Dhanurveda aachaarya, this king spoke to him, while returning from the sacred bath in Gangaa.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 59: ****Na tu saa vaagyataa devee tasya patnee pativrataa | **Uposhitaa asmi iti ravim tasmin drushte dadarsha ha || His wife was very wise, and did not talk to him. Because they were observing the upavaasa vrata, the vrata of fasting, she did not speak to him, though the king spoke to him. After seeing him, she saw the Sun.

It is told in the shaastraas that if you a paashandi, after that, you have to see the Sun once, so that the sins will get washed. This is like a praayaschitta.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 60: ****Samaagamya yathaa nyaayam dampatee tou yathaavidhi | **Vishnoh poojaadikam sarvam krutavantou dvijottama || After that, they came together, and as told in the vidhi, as per the shaastraas, they did all the poojaa of Vishnu, as usual, which they were doing everyday. www.sadagopan.org [[210]] of 219

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 61: ****Kaalena gacchataa raajaa mamaara asou sapatnajit | **Anvaaruroha taam devee chitaastham bhoopatim patim || After some time, this king, who had won over all his enemies, died. The wife, who was a pativrataa, also followed him and entered into his chitaa, she did sahagamana and gave up her body.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 62: ****Sa tu tena apachaarena shvaa jajnye vasudhaadhipah | **Uposhitena paapanda sallaapo yat kruto abhavat || After the poojaa, after doing upavaasa vrata, after taking bath, he is not supposed to speak to a paashandi. That time, because he spoke to a paashandi, the king was born as a dog. Because he had spoken to a paashandi after upavaasa vrata.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 63: ****Saa tu jaatismaraa jajnye kaashi raaja sutaa shubha | ****Sarva vijnyaana sampoornaa sarva lakshana poojitaa || **She had not made that mistake. Because of this, she was born as the daughter of Kaashi raaja, and had remembrance of her previous births. She had all the knowledge, she was very wise, she had all the good qualities, aatma gunaas.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 64: ****Taam pitaa daatukaamo abhoot varaaya vinivaaritah | **Tayaa eva tanvyaa virato vivaaha aarambhato nrupah || When she had come of age, Kaashi raaja wanted to get her married. She stopped it herself. He was stopped from any preparations for marriage - she said “I don’t want to get married now”. Whatever preparations he had started to get her married, the king stopped all of that.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 65: ****Tatah saa divyayaa drushtyaa drushtvaa shvaanam nijam patim | ****Vidishaakhyam puram gatvaa tat avastham dadarsha tam || **She had remembrance of past birth, jaatismaranaa. Because of this, with *divya *drushti, she saw that her husband had become a dog in the city of Vidishaa. She went and saw her husband who was born as a dog.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 66: ****Tam drushtva eva mahaabhaagam shva bhootam tu patim tathaa | **Dadou tasmai varaahaaram satkaarapravanam shubhaa || Because she saw her husband in that dog, she recognized and she gave all good food to that dog.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 67: ****Bhunjan dattam tayaa sah annam iti mrushtam abheepsitam | ****Svajaati lalitam kurvan bahu chaatu chakaara vai || **www.sadagopan.org [[211]] of 219

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That dog, as it is usual for dogs, having eaten all the good food that she had given, and according to his class, dog, the dog started playing around with her.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 68: ****Ateeva vreeditaa baalaa kurvataa chaatu tena saa | ****Pranaama poorvam aahedam dayitam tam kuyonijam || **While playing like that, she felt lot of shame - “O what has happened to my husband”. She did namaskaara to that dog, and told that dog thus -

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 69: ****Smaryataam tat mahaaraaja daakshinyaat lapitam tvayaa | **Yena shvayonim aapanno mama chaatukaro bhavaan || “O king, please do remember that you did talk to that paashandi, because of showing respect to the friend of your Dhanurveda aachaarya, because of the daakshinya you had. Remember that; because of this, you are born as a dog. You are flattering and pleasing me like this; you were a king in your previous birth”.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: **Smaryataam iti | Chaatu preeti cheshtaa, smaryataam |

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 70: ****Paashandinam samaabhaashya teertha snaanaat anantaram | ****Praapto asi kutsitaam yonim kim na smarasi tat prabho || **“O king, why don’t you remember your earlier birth. You talked to a paashandi after taking teertha snaana in a sacred river, after doing *Vishnu *poojaa, upavaasa, taking a holy dip in the Gangaa, you spoke to a paashandi, which is not allowed as per the shaastraas. You did not even see the Sun after that. Because of that, you are born in this lowly birth as a dog. Why don’t you remember this?”.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 71: ****Sri Paraasharah - ****Tayaa evam smaarite tasmin poorvajaati krute tadaa | **Dadhyou chiram atha aavaapa nirvedam ati durlabham || *Sri Paraasharar *- That dog, after having heard these words, remembered the previous birth. He thought for a while, and after that, thought for a long time, and got very dejected and depressed.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 72: ****Nirvinna chittah sa tato nirgamya nagaraat bahih | ****Maruprapatanam krutvaa saargaaleem yonimaagatah || **He became very dejected and depressed, and went out of the city. He climbed to a small hillock and fell down from there. He got the birth of a jackal.

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**Nirvinna chitta iti | Maruprapatanam giritataat paatah | **

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 73: ****Saa api dviteeye sampraapte veekshya divyena chakshushaa | ****Jnyaatvaa srugaalam tam drashtum yayou kolaahalam girim || **She again knew, because of jaatismaranaa, that her husband had become a jackal. She went to Kolaahala Giri, that mountain where she was born as a jackal, and having known that she was born as a jackal with her divya chakshu s.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 74: ****Tatra api drushtvaa tam praaha sargaaleem yonim aagatam | ****Bhartaaram ati chaarvangee tanayaa pruthiveekshitah || **There also, she went and saw the jackal, she recognized her husband, and told that “You are the king, why don’t you remember”.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 75: ****Api smarasi raajendra shvayonisthasya yat mayaa | ****Proktam te poorvacharitam paashanda aalaapa samshrayam || **“Do you remember, O king, that you were born as a dog in your previous birth, and I made you remember the mistake that you had made, that you had spoken to a paashandi. Do you remember that now? And whatever happened to you because of talking to a paashandi?”

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 76: ****Punah tayaa uktam sa jnyaatvaa satyam satyavataam varah | **Kaanane sa niraahaarah tatyaaja svam kalevaram || Again he remembered his earlier birth, and the mistake that he had committed, and that jackal stopped eating, gave up food, and died in the forest.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 77: ****Bhooyah tato vruko jajnye gatvaa tam nirjane vane | ****Smaarayaamaasa bhartaaram poorva vruttam aninditaa || **After that, the jackal was born as a wolf in that forest. Again, she went and told that wolf that “You are the king, and you are not this wolf. Do you remember all the births that I had told you”.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Bhooya iti | Vrukah vanashvaa | **Wild dog, wolf.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 78: ****Na tvam vruko mahaabhaaga raajaa shatadhanuh bhavaan | ****Shvaa bhootvaa tvam shrugaalo abhooh vrukatvam saampratam gatah || **You are not this wolf or this wild dog. You are the king Shatadhanu. You were born as a dog, then you were born as a jackal, now, you have got this birth as a wolf.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 79: ****Smaaritena yadaa tyakta tena aatmaa grudhrataam gatah | **Apaapaa saa punah cha enam bodhayaamaasa bhaaminee || Once he remembered this, immediately, he gave up his life. He was born as an eagle. She being very wise and devoted wife, she again went and reminded that eagle about all the earlier births.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 80: ****Narendra smaryataam aatmaa hi alam te grudhyra cheshtayaa | ****Paashanda aalaapa jaato ayam dosho yat grudhrataam gatah || **Wife said - O King, please remember who you were. Enough of your actions as an eagle. Because of dosha of talking to that paashandi, you are born as an eagle.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 81: ****Tatah kaakatvam aapannam samanantarajanmani | ****Uvaacha tanvee bhartaaram upalabhya aatma yogatah || **Because of her divya jnyaana, she again found out that he had become an eagle, and then a crow. She went and told the crow that “You are the king, and you are not this crow”.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 82: ****Ashesha bhoobhrutah poorvam vashyaa yasmai balim daduh | ****Sa tvam kaakatvam aapanno jaato adya balibhuk prabho || **Crow is also called as Balibhuk, because it eats the bali which is given. She tells “You hac won over and controlled all the great kings, and they were all giving you all the upahaara. You were a great king and were receiving from all these kings, who had surrendered unto you and offered you all kinds of things. Now, you have become a crow and are eating all that is offered as pinda.”

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: **Ashesha iti | Balih - upahaarah pindah cha |

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 83: ****Evam eva bakatve api smaaritah sa puraatanam | ****Tat tyaaja bhoopatih praanaan mayooratvam avaapa cha || **He then gave up that body and became a baka, a stork. Again, he gave up that body and was born as a peacock.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 84: ****Mayooratve tatah saa vai chakaara anugatim shubhaa | ****Dattaih pratikshanam bhojyaih baalaa tat jaati bhojanaih || **She knew again with her divya jnyaana that her husband had become a mayoora, peacock. She went there and offered all the good food eaten by peacock.

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Chakaara tasya avabhrute snaapayaamaasa tam tadaa || Janaka Mahaaraaja at that time, did an Ashvamedha Yaaga, and at the time of Avabhruta snaana, he took bath along with the peacock.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 86: ****Sasnou svayam cha tanvangee smaarayaamaasa cha api tam | **Yathaa asou shva srugaalaadi yonim jagraaha paarthivah || She also took bath along with that peacock during the Avabhruta snaana, and she reminded that peacock that “You are the king Shatadhanu, you are not this peacock”. She tells him everything - “You were born as a dog, as a jackal, and others”.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 87: ****Smruta janma kramah so atha tat tyaaja sva kalevaram | **Jajnye sa janakasya eva putro asou sumahaatmanah || Having remembered all these previous births, he gave up this body again, and was born as son of Janakaraaja himself.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 88: ****Tatah saa pitaram tanvee vivaahaartham achodayat | **Sa cha api kaarayaamaasa tasyaa raajaa svayamvaram || At this point of time, Shaibyaa tells her father Kaashiraaja that “Now, please organize my marriage. I am ready for it”. He gets all preparations done for her svayamvara.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 89: ****Svayamvare krute saa tam sampraaptam patim aatmanah | **Varayaamaasa bhooyo api bhartru bhaavena bhaaminee || She recognizes her husband born as son of Janaka, who was invited and had come for the svayamvara, and she selected him as her husband during the svayamvara.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 90: ****Bubhuje cha tayaa saardham sa bhogaat nrupanandanah | **Pitari uparate raajyam videheshu chakaara sah || He enjoyed all the wealth and prosperity of the kingdom along with his wife, and after his father died, he became the king of Videha.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 91: ****Iyaaja yajnyaan subahoon dadou daanaani cha arthinaam | **Putraan utpaadayaamaasa yuyudhe cha sah aribhih || He also performed a lot of yajnyaas, and gave a lot of daana, to those who were deserving and wanting. He had children also, and also fought with his enemies, and won over them.

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Tattyaaja sa priyaan praanaan sangraame dharmato nrupah || After having enjoyed all the good things in the kingdom, as told for a king, after having ruled over, he also died after some time. He died during a war.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 93: ****Tatah chitaastham tam bhooyo bhartaaram saa shubekshanaa | **Anvaaruroha vidhivat yathaa poorvam mudaanvitaa || She, very happily again did sahagamana along with her husband, and also gave up her body.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 94: ****Tato avaapa tayaa saardham raajaputryaa sa paarthivah | Aindraan ateetya vai lokaan lokaan kaamaduho akshayaan || He attained the great worlds, the svarga loka and others, which was beyond, much better and above the Indra loka also. Along with his wife. Both husband and wife attained those lokaas, where they enjoyed all kinds of never-ending pleasures.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: **Aindraan lokaan ateetya kaama duho lokaan avaapya iti anvayah |

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 95: ****Svarga akshayatvam atulam daampatyam atidurlabham | **Praaptam punya phalam praapya samshuddhim taam dvijottama || This kind of svarga they attained, which is very rare to attain for such a pair. Having attaining the fruits of the good deeds. Due to the rare daampatya which they had due to being purified as told, this kind of svarga, which they attained, is very rare, and is the result of such punya.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Svarga iti | Daampatyam mithunam, taam poorvoktaam samshuddhim praapya **punya phalam atulam svarga akshayatvam praaptam iti anvayah | They attained svarga for a very long time. Daampatyam means that they were united. Due to the shuddhi attained, as told earlier, they attained svarga for a very long time, as a fruit of their punya.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 96: ****Esha paashanda sambhaashaat doshah prokto mayaa dvija | **Tathaa ashvamedhou abhruta snaana maahaatmyam eva cha || This is the kind of thing which happens if you talk to a paashandi, when you are observing a vrata. It is so harmful. At the same time, I have also told you the greatness of Avabhruta snaana in an Ashvamedha Yaaga.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 97: ****Tasmaat paashandibhih paapaih aalaapa sparshanam tyajet | ****Visheshatah kriyaa kaale yajnyaadou cha api deekshitah || **One should give up talking, touching paashandis. This should be completely given www.sadagopan.org [[216]] of 219

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up, avoided. Especially while performing some vrataas, when one has taken *yajnya *deekshaa, it is very important to avoid coming in contact with a paashandi.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 98: ****Kriyaa haani gruhe yasya maasam ekam prajaayate | **Tasya avalokanaat sooryam prapashyet matimaan narah || If the nitya naimittika karmaa s are not performed in anyone’s house, if someone sees a person who has given up nitya naimittika karmaas, then he should see the Sun.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 99: ****Kim punah yah tu samtyaktaa trayee sarvaatmanaa dvija | **Paashanda bhojibhih paapaih veda vaada virodhibhih || What to say of them who have given up the Veda dharmaas completely, totally? They are against the Vedaas, given up the Vedic dharmaas.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Kim punah iti | Paashandaan bhojayanti, tat annam bhunjata iti vaa paashanda **bhojanah | Those who feed such paashandis also, or eat food offered by a paashandi.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 100: ****Saahaalaapah tu samsargah sahaa asyaa cha ati paapinee | ****Paashandibhih duraachaaraih tasmaat taan parivarjayet || **Even sitting with them, talking to them, is extremely harmful. And leads to great sin. Paashandis who don’t have any aachaara, one should totally give up contact with such people.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 101: ****Paashandino vikarmasthaan baidaala vratikaan shathaan | **Haitukaan bakavrutteen cha vaang maatrena api na archayet || Even greeting them with kind words - should not be done. These are explained in the commentary below.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Paashandina iti | Paashandi lakshanam tu uktam yathaa - * Bhrashtah sva ****dharmaat paashando vikarmastho nishiddha krut | Yah cha dharmadhvajo ****nityam suradhvaja iva ucchritah | Dharma dhvajah - danda kamandalu aadih ****dharma chinham | * Pracchannaani cha paapaani baidaalam naama tat vratam * ****Tat vratam - tasya vratam | * Priyam vakti puro anyatra vipriyam kurute ****bhrusham | Vyakta aparaadha cheshtah cha shatho ayam kathito budheh | ****Sandehakrut hetubhih yah sat karmasu sa haitukah | Arvaak drushtih ****naikrutikah svaartha saadhana tatparah | Shatho mithyaa vineetah cha ****bakavruttih udaahrutah || iti | **Paashandis are those who have given up the Vedaas. Bhrashta is one who has given up the varna aashrama dharma. Vikarmastha is one who does things barred in www.sadagopan.org [[217]] of 219

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the Vedaas. Dharmadhvaja is one who is wearing all the signs, but is not following it. Baidaala are those who do the Baidaala vrata, who commit lot of sins in secrecy. Shathaas are those who speak very good things in front of a person, and behind the back, they do all kinds of bad things; and also those whose blunders are well known. In good deeds, with all kinds of wrong logic, they always doubt, like in Vaidika karmaas, dharmaas, etc., finds faults in them, using dustarkaas, are called haitukaas; they use wrong reasons, wrong hetus. One who always sees low upon others, a very mean person, very selfish person. Bakavrutti is one who shows false prestige, as though he is very good, who is just show off. Any contact with these should be completely given up. They should not be shown any respect even with greeting them with good words.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 102: ****Dooratah taih tu samparkah tyaajyah cha api ati paapibhih | ****Paashandibhih duraachaaraih tasmaat taan parivarjayet || **One should avoid them even at a distance. One should not even go near them, as they are extreme sinners. They are paashandis, then the ones who are doing acts against what is told in the Vedaas, they should be totally avoided, rejected.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 103: ****Ete nagnaah tvayaa aakhyaataa drushtaah shraaddha upaghaatakaah | ****Yeshaam sambhaashanaat pumsaam dinapunyam pranashyati || **These are called nagnaas. They cause a lot of harm to shraaddha. Even talking to such people, one day’s punya will be lost completely.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 104: ****Ete paashandinah paapaa na hi etaan aalapet budhah | **Punyam nashyati sambhaashaat eteshaam tat dinodbhavam || One should not even talk to them; if he talks, all the punya will get destroyed.

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**Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 3, Chapter 18, Shloka 105: ****Pumsaam jataadharana moundyavataam vruthaa eva moghaashinaam akhila ****shoucha niraakrutaanaam | ****Toya pradaana pitru pinda bahishkrutaanaam sambhaashanaat api naraah ****narakam prayaanti || **This chapter is concluded by telling how harmful it is even to talk to some people. They have all the jataa, they shave their heads, they are just showing off, this is a waste, this is of no use. They have given up all shoucha, purity which is told in the shaastraas. They don’t do shraaddha for the pitrus, do not give any tarpana. With such people, if one talks to them, has a conversation with them, they go to naraka.

**Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****Pumsaam iti | Moghaashinaam deva atithi pitru pooja anupayukta anna ****bhojinaam || **Those who are eating food not offered to devaas, pitrus, atithis. www.sadagopan.org [[218]] of 219

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With this we come to the end of Amsha 3, Chapter 18. This concludes Amsha 3.

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