हिनस्ति विषमत्तारं वह्निरद्भि: प्रशाम्यति । कुलं समूलं दहति ब्रह्मस्वारणिपावक: ॥ ३४ ॥
hinasti viṣam attāraṁ vahnir adbhiḥ praśāmyati kulaṁ sa-mūlaṁ dahati brahma-svāraṇi-pāvakaḥ
- hinasti
- destroys
- viṣam
- poison
- attāram
- the one who ingests
- vahniḥ
- fire
- adbhiḥ
- with water
- praśāmyati
- is extinguished
- kulam
- one’s family
- sa-mūlam
- to the root
- dahati
- burns
- brahma-sva
- a brāhmaṇa’s property
- araṇi
- whose kindling wood
- pāvakaḥ
- the fire
Poison kills only the person who ingests it, and an ordinary fire may be extinguished with water. But the fire generated from the kindling wood of a brāhmaṇa’s property burns the thief’s entire family down to the root.