Shloka 10
शोभने! पुनर्वसु नक्षत्रमें पूआ और अन्न-दान करके मनुष्य उत्तम कुलमें जन्म लेता है, तथा वहाँ यशस्वी, रूपवान् एवं प्रचुर अन्नसे सम्पन्न होता है ।। पुष्येण कनकं दत्त्वा कृतं वाकृतमेव च । अनालोकेषु लोकेषु सोमवत् स विराजते,पुष्य नक्षत्रमें सोनेका आभूषण अथवा केवल सोना ही दान करनेसे दाता प्रकाशशून्य लोकोंमें भी चन्द्रमाके समान प्रकाशित होता है
nārada uvāca | śobhane! punarvasu-nakṣatre pūvāṁ (pūāṁ) ca anna-dānaṁ ca kṛtvā manuṣya uttama-kule janma labhate, tatra ca yaśasvī rūpavān ca pracurānna-sampannaś ca bhavati || puṣyeṇa kanakaṁ dattvā kṛtaṁ vākṛtam eva ca | anālokeṣu lokeṣu somavat sa virājate ||
Narada said: “O auspicious lady! By offering sweet cakes and giving food in charity under the Punarvasu constellation, a person is born into an excellent family and, in that life, becomes renowned, handsome, and richly supplied with food. Likewise, by giving gold—whether fashioned as an ornament or even as unworked metal—under the Puṣya constellation, the giver shines like the moon even in worlds devoid of light.”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that timely charity—especially food-giving and gold-giving performed with auspicious intention—produces tangible ethical fruits: favorable rebirth, social honor, beauty, prosperity, and a luminous posthumous state. It elevates dāna as a dharmic act whose merit follows the giver beyond this world.
Nārada is instructing a woman addressed as “Śobhane,” explaining the specific spiritual benefits of making particular gifts under the nakṣatras Punarvasu and Puṣya. The instruction is part of Anuśāsana Parva’s broader discourse on dharma, especially the power of dāna.