Shloka 33

Tilā-Dāna, Dīpa-Dāna, and Nitya-Jalapradāna

Yama–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda) | तिलदान-दीपदान-नित्यजलप्रदान (यम-ब्राह्मण संवाद

Devanagari script

कांस्योपदोहनां धेनुं रेवत्यां यः प्रयच्छति । सा प्रेत्य कामानादाय दातारमुपतिष्ठति,जो रेवती नक्षत्रमें कांसके दुग्धपात्रसे युक्त धेनुका दान करता है वह धेनु परलोकमें सम्पूर्ण भोगोंको लेकर उस दाताकी सेवामें उपस्थित होती है

Transliteration

nārada uvāca |

kāṁsyopadohanāṁ dhenuṁ revatyāṁ yaḥ prayacchati |

sā pretya kāmān ādāya dātāram upatiṣṭhati ||

Translation

Nārada sprach: „Wer zur Zeit der Mondstation Revatī eine Kuh spendet, versehen mit einem bronzenen (kāṃsya) Melkgefäß, dem wird nach dem Tod eben diese Kuh, alle gewünschten Genüsse tragend, nahen, um dem Spender beizustehen und ihm zu dienen.“

Word by Word

कांस्योपदोहनाम्having a milking-vessel of bronze

धेनुम्a cow

रेवत्याम्in (the nakshatra) Revati

यःwho

प्रयच्छतिgives, bestows

साshe (that cow)

प्रेत्यafter death, having departed

कामान्desired enjoyments

आदायhaving taken

दातारम्the giver, donor

उपतिष्ठतिattends upon, stands by in service

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

dhenu (cow)

kāṁsya-upadohana (bronze milking vessel)

Revatī (nakṣatra)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That dāna performed with appropriate care—here, gifting a milch-cow equipped with a bronze milking vessel and done at an auspicious nakṣatra—yields enduring merit, symbolized by the gift itself becoming a source of support and enjoyment for the donor in the afterlife.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada is enumerating the fruits of specific charitable gifts. In this verse he states that a cow donated with a bronze milking utensil during the Revatī lunar mansion will, after the donor’s death, appear in the next world bringing desired enjoyments and attending upon the donor.