एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु धर्मराजः समाययौ । यत्र वेदध्वनिर्ब्रह्मा ब्रह्मलोकं समाश्रितः
etasminneva kāle tu dharmarājaḥ samāyayau | yatra vedadhvanirbrahmā brahmalokaṃ samāśritaḥ
Zu eben jener Zeit kam Dharmarāja herbei — dorthin, wo Brahmā, vom Widerhall der Veden umgeben, in Brahmaloka verweilte.
Purāṇic narrator
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Dharmarāja arrives at a luminous sacred precinct where Brahmā abides, the air filled with visible waves of Vedic sound; a celestial court-like atmosphere forms around the kṣetra.
Dharma is upheld not only on earth but through cosmic governance; when results of merit surge, divine order responds.
The verse continues the Adhyāya’s consequence narrative stemming from the tīrtha’s extraordinary fruits, though it shifts the scene to Brahmaloka.
None; it introduces Dharmarāja and Brahmā in a cosmological setting to frame the next development.