Shloka 161
Tīrtha-yātrā: Phalaśruti and Sacred Geography from Lohitya to Prayāga
Pulastya’s Instruction
विमोचनमुपस्पृश्य जितमन्युर्जितिन्द्रिय: । प्रतिग्रहकृतैर्दोषै: सर्व: स परिमुच्यते,विमोचनतीर्थमें स्नान और आचमन करके क्रोध और इन्द्रियोंको काबूमें रखनेवाला मनुष्य प्रतिग्रहजनित सारे दोषोंसे मुक्त हो जाता है
vimocanam upaspṛśya jitamanyur jitendriyaḥ | pratigrahakṛtair doṣaiḥ sarvaḥ sa parimucyate ||
বিমোচন-তীৰ্থত স্নান কৰি আৰু আচমন সম্পন্ন কৰি, যিয়ে ক্ৰোধ জয় কৰিছে আৰু ইন্দ্ৰিয় সংযম কৰিছে, সি প্ৰতিগ্ৰহ (দান গ্ৰহণ) জনিত সকলো দোষৰ পৰা সম্পূৰ্ণ মুক্ত হয়।
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ritual purification at a tīrtha is presented as effective when joined with inner discipline: conquering anger and controlling the senses. Such self-mastery, combined with bathing/ācamana at Vimocana, frees one from the moral taints connected with improper acceptance of gifts (pratigraha).
A speaker (Ghulastya) describes the merit of the sacred place called Vimocana: by bathing there and performing the water-rite, a self-controlled person is said to be released from faults incurred through pratigraha.