Shloka 66

Brāhmaṇya-प्रश्नः — The Inquiry into Attaining Brāhmaṇya

Mataṅga–Gardabhī Itihāsa

Devanagari script

यान्यगम्यानि तीर्थाणि दुर्गाणि विषमाणि च | मनसा तानि गम्यानि सर्वतीर्थसमीक्षया,जो समस्त तीर्थोंके दर्शनकी इच्छा रखता हो, वह दुर्गण और विषम होनेके कारण जिन तीर्थोमें शरीरसे न जा सके, वहाँ मनसे यात्रा करे

Transliteration

yāny agamyāni tīrthāni durgāṇi viṣamāṇi ca | manasā tāni gamyāni sarvatīrthasamīkṣayā ||

Translation

If a person longs to behold all tīrthas, then those pilgrimage-places that the body cannot reach—because the paths are hard or the ground is rugged—should be visited with the mind, by contemplatively reviewing all tīrthas. The teaching affirms that sincere intention and inner recollection can complete what the body cannot, without forsaking the ethical aim of pilgrimage.

Word by Word

यानिwhich (things)

अगम्यानिnot to be gone to / inaccessible

तीर्थाणिpilgrimage-places, sacred fords

दुर्गाणिhard to traverse, difficult

विषमाणिuneven, rugged

चand

मनसाby the mind

तानिthose (places)

गम्यानिto be gone to / should be visited

सर्वतीर्थसमीक्षयाby (the act of) viewing/considering all tīrthas

Speaker

अजड्रिय उवाच

Characters & Entities

tīrtha (pilgrimage places)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Pilgrimage is not only physical travel; when sacred places cannot be reached due to difficulty or danger, one may fulfill the intent through mental visitation—recollection and contemplative review—so that devotion and dharmic purpose are preserved despite practical limits.

What is happening in the narrative?

Ajadri is instructing about the proper way to undertake a comprehensive tīrtha-yātrā: for remote or hazardous tīrthas that cannot be visited bodily, the seeker should 'go' there with the mind, treating inner contemplation as a valid form of darśana.