Verse 17.13

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 17.13:

विधि-हीनम् असृष्टान्नं मन्त्र-हीनम् अदक्षिणम् ।
श्रद्धा-विरहितं यज्ञं तामसं परिचक्षते ॥ १३ ॥

vidhi-hīnam asṛṣṭānnaṃ mantra-hīnam adakṣiṇam |
śraddhā-virahitaṃ yajñaṃ tāmasaṃ paricakṣate || 13 ||

vidhi-hīnam–disregarding the precepts of scripture; asṛṣṭa–where there is no distribution; annam–of prasādam (food sanctified by being offered to God and accepted as His blessing); mantra-hīnam–without the utter-ance of mantras, sacred names of God, to purify the mind; adakṣiṇam–wherein no gifts are given to the priests; śraddhā-virahitam–without faith; yajñam–that sacrifice; tāmasam–in the quality of darkness; paricakṣate–is said (to be).

That sacrifice in which the injunctions of scripture are disregarded, no sanctified foodstuffs are distributed, no Vedic mantras are chanted and no gifts are given to the priests, and which is performed without faith, is described by the learned to be influenced by the quality of ignorance.

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā

(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)

Asṛṣṭānnam means ‘without distribution of foodstuffs’.