Shloka 40

Devanagari script

एकमासं निराहार: सोमलोकमवाप्लुयात्‌,जो ब्रह्मसरोवर (पुष्करतीर्थ) और भागीरथी गड़ामें स्नान करके पितरोंका तर्पण करता और वहाँ एक मासतक निराहार रहता है उसे चन्द्रलोककी प्राप्ति होती है

Transliteration

ekamāsaṁ nirāhāraḥ somalokam avāpnuyāt | yo brahmasarovare (puṣkaratīrthe) bhāgīrathyāṁ gaṅgāyāṁ snātvā pitṝṇāṁ tarpaṇaṁ karoti, tatra caikamāsaṁ nirāhāraḥ tiṣṭhati, sa candralokaprāptiṁ labhate |

Translation

Ajadriya said: “One who, after bathing at the sacred Brahma-saras at Puṣkara and in the Bhāgīrathī (the Gaṅgā), offers libations to the ancestors and then remains there for a full month without food, attains the realm of Soma—the lunar world.”

Word by Word

• एक: one
• एक: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• मासम्: month (for one month)
• मासम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मास
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• निराहारः: fasting; without food
• निराहारः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निराहार
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सोमलोकम्: the Moon-world
• सोमलोकम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सोमलोक
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• अवाप्नुयात्: would attain
• Type: Verb
• Root: अव√आप्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular

Speaker

अजड्रिय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Ajadriya
• Soma
• Somaloka (Candraloka)
• Brahmasarovara
• Puṣkara-tīrtha
• Bhāgīrathī (Gaṅgā)
• Pitṛs (ancestors)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that disciplined austerity (a month-long fast) combined with tīrtha-bathing and pitṛ-tarpaṇa is a dharmic act believed to yield a specific spiritual fruit: attainment of the lunar realm (Somaloka/Candraloka).

What is happening in the narrative?

In a discourse on vows, gifts, and sacred observances, the speaker enumerates the results of particular pilgrimage-based austerities—here, bathing at Puṣkara’s Brahma-saras and in the Gaṅgā, offering ancestral libations, and maintaining a month-long fast—stating the promised heavenly destination.