Shloka 27

Brāhmaṇya-प्रश्नः — The Inquiry into Attaining Brāhmaṇya

Mataṅga–Gardabhī Itihāsa

Devanagari script

देवदारुवने स्नात्वा धूतपाप्मा कृतोदक: । देवलोकमवाप्रोति सप्तरात्रोषित: शुचि:

Transliteration

devadāruvane snātvā dhūtapāpmā kṛtodakaḥ | devalokam avāpnoti sapta-rātroṣitaḥ śuciḥ ||

Translation

„Wer im Devadāru-Wald badet und die vorgeschriebenen Wasserriten vollzieht, wird von Sünde gereinigt. Verweilt er dort in Reinheit sieben Nächte, so erlangt er die Welt der Götter.“

Word by Word

देवदारुवनेin the deodāra-grove

स्नात्वाhaving bathed

धूतपाप्माwhose sin is washed away

कृतोदकःhaving performed the water-rite (ācamana/udaka-kriyā)

देवलोकम्the world of the gods

अवाप्नोतिattains

सप्तरात्रोषितःhaving stayed for seven nights

शुचिःpure

Speaker

अजड्रिय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Ajadriya (speaker)

Devadāruvana (sacred forest)

Devaloka (realm of the gods)

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?

Purification is framed as both ritual and ethical: bathing at a sacred place, completing the proper water-rite, and maintaining purity for a set observance (seven nights) are said to remove sin and lead to higher spiritual reward (attaining devaloka).

What is happening in the narrative?

Ajadriya describes the fruit of a specific sacred observance connected with the Devadāru forest: one bathes there, performs the prescribed water-ritual, stays for seven nights in purity, and thereby gains the merit that leads to the gods’ realm.