Shloka 70

Bhāgīratha’s Tapas and the Petition to Gaṅgā (गङ्गावतरण-प्रसङ्गः)

Devanagari script

तपःसिद्धिसमायोगात्‌ स राजा भरतर्षभ । वनाज्जगाम त्रिदिवं कालयोगेन भारत,भरतश्रेष्ठ] राजा दिलीप तपस्याजनक सिद्धिसे संयुक्त हो अन्तकाल आनेपर वनसे स्वर्गलोकको चले गये

Transliteration

tapaḥsiddhisamāyogāt sa rājā bharatarṣabha | vanāj jagāma tridivaṃ kālayogena bhārata ||

Translation

O Stier unter den Bhāratas, jener König—der die Frucht der Askese (tapas) erlangt hatte—ging, als die bestimmte Zeit gekommen war, aus dem Wald in die Himmelswelt ein.

Word by Word

तपःसिद्धि-समायोगात्from/owing to the conjunction with ascetic accomplishment

सःhe

राजाking

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

वनात्from the forest

जगामwent

त्रिदिवम्to heaven

कालयोगेनby the conjunction/operation of time (at the destined time)

भारतO Bharata

Speaker

सगर उवाच

Characters & Entities

स

सगर (Sagara)

भ

भरतर्षभ (Bharatarṣabha)

भ

भारत (Bhārata)

र

राजा दिलीप (King Dilīpa)

व

वन (forest)

त

त्रिदिव (heaven)

Character Dynamics

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?

Perfected austerity (tapas) bears spiritual fruition, and when one’s life is aligned with dharma, even death is portrayed as an orderly transition governed by kāla (destined time), leading to an auspicious state.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sagara states that the king (identified in the accompanying gloss as Dilīpa) attained success through tapas and, when his appointed time arrived, left the forest and went to heaven.