Shloka 43
Pratyakṣa–Āgama–Ācāra: Doubt, Proof, and the Practice of Dharma (प्रत्यक्ष–आगम–आचारविचारः)
अग्नियोगवह्ो ग्रीष्मे विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा । चीर्त्वा द्वादशवर्षाणि राजा भवति पार्थिव:
agnīyogavaho grīṣme vidhidṛṣṭena karmaṇā | cīrtvā dvādaśavarṣāṇi rājā bhavati pārthivaḥ ||
قال المهيشفرا: من يقوم في حرّ الصيف برياضة «النيران الخمس» وفق الطقس المقرر في الشاسترا، ويثبت على تلك الملاحظة اثنتي عشرة سنة، يُبعث من جديد ملكًا يحكم الأرض—فينال السيادة الدنيوية ثمرةً لضبط النفس القاسي المنضبط بالشرع.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Austerity yields results only when performed with disciplined adherence to prescribed rule (vidhi). Sustained, lawful tapas—here, the five-fire observance in summer—produces a concrete karmic fruit: rebirth into worldly sovereignty (kingship).
Śrī Maheśvara is describing the merit (phala) of a specific ascetic observance: practicing the fire-related austerity during summer according to scriptural procedure and maintaining it for twelve years, which results in being reborn as a ruler of the earth.