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Shloka 84

Dhaumya’s Enumeration of Eastern Tīrthas

Prācī-diś Tīrtha-kathana

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत वनपव्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें पुलस्त्यकी तीर्थयात्रासे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला चौरासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ,दश तीर्थसहस्राणि षष्टि: कोट्यस्तथापरा: । येषां सांनिध्यमत्रैव कीर्तितं कुरुनन्दन कुरुनन्दन! साठ करोड़ दस हजार तीर्थोका निवास केवल इस प्रयागमें ही बताया गया है। चारों विद्याओंके ज्ञानसे जो पुण्य होता है तथा सत्य बोलनेवाले व्यक्तियोंको जिस पुण्यकी प्राप्ति होती है वह सब गंगा-यमुनाके संगममें स्नान करनेमात्रसे प्राप्त हो जाता है

daśa tīrtha-sahasrāṇi ṣaṣṭiḥ koṭyas tathāparāḥ | yeṣāṁ sānnidhyam atraiva kīrtitaṁ kuru-nandana ||

kuru-nandana! ṣaṣṭi-koṭi-daśa-tīrtha-sahasrāṇāṁ nivāsaḥ kevalam asmin prayāge eva kathitaḥ | catur-vidyā-jñānena yat puṇyaṁ bhavati tathā satya-vādināṁ yā puṇya-prāptiḥ sā sarvā gaṅgā-yamunā-saṅgame snāna-mātreṇa labhyate |

Pulastya sprach: „O Wonne der Kurus, es wird verkündet, dass allein hier—in Prayāga—zehntausend Tīrthas (heilige Furten) weilen und dazu noch weitere sechzig Krore. Das Verdienst, das aus der Meisterschaft der vier Zweige heiliger Erkenntnis erwächst, und das Verdienst, das den Wahrhaftigen zuteilwird—all dies erlangt man schon durch ein einziges Bad am Zusammenfluss von Gaṅgā und Yamunā.“

दशten
दश:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootदश
FormNeuter, Nominative, Plural
तीर्थसहस्राणिthousands of sacred fords (tirthas)
तीर्थसहस्राणि:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootतीर्थसहस्र
FormNeuter, Nominative, Plural
षष्टिःsixty
षष्टिः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootषष्टि
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
कोट्यःcrores
कोट्यः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootकोटि
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
तथाand/also/likewise
तथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतथा
अपराःother (additional)
अपराः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootअपर
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
येषाम्of which/whose
येषाम्:
TypePronoun
Rootयद्
FormNeuter, Genitive, Plural
सान्निध्यम्presence/proximity
सान्निध्यम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootसान्निध्य
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
अत्रhere
अत्र:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअत्र
एवindeed/only
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
कीर्तितम्is proclaimed/has been described
कीर्तितम्:
TypeVerb
Rootकीर्तित
FormPerfect participle (past passive participle), Singular
कुरुनन्दनO delight of the Kurus (address)
कुरुनन्दन:
Sampradana
TypeNoun
Rootकुरुनन्दन
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular

घुलस्त्य उवाच

P
Pulastya
K
Kuru-nandana
P
Prayāga
G
Gaṅgā
Y
Yamunā
S
Saṅgama (confluence)
T
Tīrthas

Educational Q&A

The passage elevates Prayāga’s confluence-bath as a concentrated act of dharma: a single ritual of purification is said to yield the same spiritual merit as extensive learning and the lifelong discipline of truthfulness, emphasizing the sanctity of place and the transformative power of sincere pilgrimage.

Pulastya, while describing pilgrimage sites in the Tīrthayātrā section of the Vana Parva, praises Prayāga to a Kuru prince (addressed as Kuru-nandana), declaring the extraordinary presence of innumerable tīrthas there and the exceptional merit of bathing at the Gaṅgā–Yamunā confluence.