Shloka 77
Nāgendra–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda: Praśna-vidhi and Dharmic Approach on the Gomatī Riverbank
आराध्य तपसोग्रेण देवं हयशिरोधरम् । पज्चालेन क्रम: प्राप्तो देवेन पथि देशिते,महादेवजीके बताये हुए मार्गपर चलकर उग्र तपस्याद्वारा भगवान् हयग्रीवकी आराधना करके पांचालदेशीय गालवमुनिने वेदोंका क्रमविभाग प्राप्त किया था
Vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca |
ārādhya tapasogreṇa devaṃ hayaśirodharam |
pañcālena kramaḥ prāpto devena pathi deśite ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: By worshipping with fierce austerities the god who bears a horse’s head—Hayagrīva—the sage Galava of the Pañcāla country obtained the ordered arrangement of the Vedas, following the path that the deity himself had shown.
वैशग्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred knowledge is preserved and rightly organized through disciplined austerity (tapas) joined with devotion and correct guidance; effort becomes fruitful when aligned with a divinely indicated method.
Vaiśaṃpāyana recounts that Galava, a sage associated with Pañcāla, propitiated Hayagrīva through intense austerities and, by following the deity’s instructed path, attained the proper ordered arrangement (krama) of the Vedas.