Shloka 336

Ārṣṭiṣeṇa’s Siddhi and the Tīrtha-Boons; Sindhudvīpa–Devāpi Brāhmaṇya; Viśvāmitra’s Tapas Begins

Devanagari script

पृथूदके जप्यपरो नैनं श्वोमरणं तपेत्‌ । “जो सरस्वतीके उत्तर तटपर पृथूदकतीर्थमें जप करते हुए अपने शरीरका परित्याग करता है, उसे भविष्यमें पुन: मृत्युका कष्ट नहीं भोगना पड़ता”

Transliteration

pṛthūdake japyaparo nainaṃ śvomaraṇaṃ tapet |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: One who, intent on japa, relinquishes the body at the sacred ford called Pṛthūdaka on the northern bank of the Sarasvatī is not thereafter afflicted by the suffering of death again. The passage upholds the Mahābhārata’s ethic that disciplined devotion at a consecrated tīrtha, joined with conscious renunciation, is held to yield liberation from repeated mortality.

Word by Word

पृथूदकेin (the tirtha) Pr̥thūdaka

जप्यपरःone devoted to japa (prayer/recitation)

नnot

एनम्him

श्वःtomorrow / in the future

मरणम्death

तपेत्would afflict / would torment

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Pṛthūdaka-tīrtha

Sarasvatī (river)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes