न यष्टव्यं न दातव्यं न होतव्यं द्विजा: क्वचित् । इति न्यवारयद्धर्मं भेरीघोषेण सर्वश: ॥ ६ ॥
na yastavyam na datavyam na hotavyam dvijah kvacit iti nyavarayad dharmam bheri-ghosena sarvasah
- na
- not
- yastavyam
- any sacrifices can be performed
- na
- not
- datavyam
- any charity can be given
- na
- not
- hotavyam
- any clarified butter can be offered
- dvijah
- O twice-born
- kvacit
- at any time
- iti
- thus
- nyavarayat
- he stopped
- dharmam
- the procedures of religious principles
- bheri
- of kettledrums
- ghosena
- with the sound
- sarvasah
- everywhere.
All the twice-born (brahmanas) were forbidden henceforward to perform any sacrifice, and they were also forbidden to give charity or offer clarified butter. Thus King Vena sounded kettledrums throughout the countryside. In other words, he stopped all kinds of religious rituals.