Shloka 3
मागधगिरिव्रजप्रवेशः — Entry into Girivraja and Jarāsandha’s Protocol Inquiry
पाद्यार्ष्याचमनीयैस्तमर्चयामास भारत | स नृपो राज्यसहितं पुत्र॑ तस्मै न््यवेदयत्,भारत! पाद्य, अर््ध और आचमनीय आदिके द्वारा राजाने महर्षिका पूजन किया और अपने सारे राज्यके सहित पुत्रको उन्हें सौंप दिया
pādyārghyācamanaīyais tam arcayāmāsa bhārata | sa nṛpo rājyasahitaṃ putraṃ tasmai nyavedayat ||
হে ভাৰত! ৰজাই পাদ্য, অৰ্ঘ্য আৰু আচমনীয় আদি নিবেদন কৰি মহর্ষিক পূজা কৰিলে। তাৰ পাছত তেওঁ নিজৰ সমগ্ৰ ৰাজ্যসহ পুত্ৰকো তেওঁৰ হাতত অৰ্পণ কৰিলে।
श्रीकृष्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights dharma expressed as proper hospitality and reverence toward a worthy guest (especially a sage). It also underscores the ethical ideal that worldly power and even one’s heirs may be subordinated to higher spiritual authority when duty requires.
A king receives and honors a revered sage with formal offerings (pādya, arghya, ācamanīya). After this reception, the king formally entrusts his son—and with him the kingdom’s charge—to the sage.