Shloka 30
युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya
ततः कनखले स्नात्वा त्रिरात्रोपोषितो नर: । अश्वमेधमवाप्रोति स्वर्गलोक॑ च गच्छति,तदनन्तर कनखलमें स्नान करके तीन रात उपवास करनेवाला मनुष्य अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल पाता और स्वर्ग-लोकमें जाता है
tataḥ kanakhale snātvā trirātro-poṣito naraḥ | aśvamedham avāpnoti svargalokaṃ ca gacchati ||
ثمّ إذا اغتسل المرء في كَنَخَلا (Kanakhala) وصام ثلاث ليالٍ، نال ثوابَ قربانِ الأشفاميدها (Aśvamedha) ومضى إلى عالم السماء.
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that sincere pilgrimage and disciplined austerity—here, bathing at a sacred tīrtha and fasting for three nights—can yield extraordinary spiritual merit, symbolically equated with the famed Aśvamedha, and lead toward higher posthumous realms (svarga).
A speaker describes the fruit of a specific tīrtha-observance at Kanakhala: after bathing there and fasting for three nights, a person is said to gain the merit of performing an Aśvamedha sacrifice and to attain heaven.