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Chapter 12.36 - Verse 2

Sanskrit Text

एककालं तु भुञ्जानश्चरन्भैक्षं स्वकर्मकृत् कपालपाणिः खट्वाङ्गी ब्रह्मचारी सदोत्थितः

English Translation

By living upon only one meal a day, procured by begging, by doing all his acts himself, by going about begging with a human skull in one hand and a staff with a skull on it in another, by becoming a Brahmacharin and always ready for work, by renouncing all malice, by sleeping on the naked earth, by declaring his offence publicly, by doing all this for full twelve years, a person can cleanse himself from the sin of a Brahmanicide.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

एक + काल | तु | भुज् + चर् | भैक्षं | स्व + कर्मन् + कृत्
कपाल + पाणि | खट्वाङ्गी | ब्रह्मचारी | सदा + उत्था