Shloka 973

Devanagari script

शुद्धेन मनसा विप्र नाकपृष्ठं ततो गत: । “विप्रवर! कहते हैं, राजा रन्तिदेवके पास जब कुछ भी नहीं रह गया, तब उन्होंने शुद्ध हृदयसे केवल जलका दान किया था। इससे वे स्वर्गलोकमें गये थे

Transliteration

śuddhena manasā vipra nākapṛṣṭhaṃ tato gataḥ |

Translation

يا أيها البراهميُّ الجليل! يُروى أنّ الملكَ رَنْتيدِيفا، حين لم يبقَ لديه شيءٌ البتّة، تصدّق بماءٍ وحده بقلبٍ طاهر. وبصدقِ تلك العطية بلغَ عالمَ السماء.

Word by Word

शुद्धेनwith pure (mind)

मनसाby/with the mind

विप्रO brahmin

नाकपृष्ठम्the surface of heaven; heaven-world

ततःfrom there; then

गतःgone; having gone

Speaker

श्षशुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

vipra (brāhmaṇa addressee)

nākapṛṣṭha (heavenly realm/summit of heaven)

King Rantideva (implied by the accompanying gloss)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights that the moral worth of giving depends primarily on purity of intention: even a small gift (like water) offered with a clean heart can yield great spiritual merit and lead to heavenly attainment.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker addresses a brāhmaṇa and states that the person in question, through a purified mind, attained the highest heaven—contextually explained as King Rantideva reaching heaven after donating water when he had nothing else left.