Shloka 62

Devanagari script

तीर्थे सलिलराजस्य स्नात्वा प्रयतमानस: । त्रिरात्रमुषित: स्नातस्तर्पयेत्‌ पितृदेवता:,मनुष्य शुद्धचित्त हो जलोंके स्वामी वरुणके तीर्थ (समुद्र)-में स्नान करके वहाँ तीन रात रहे और प्रतिदिन नहाकर देवताओं तथा पितरोंका तर्पण करे

Transliteration

tīrthe salilarājasya snātvā prayatamānasaḥ | trirātram uṣitaḥ snātaḥ tarpayet pitṛdevatāḥ ||

Translation

Having bathed at the sacred ford of Varuṇa, lord of the waters, with a disciplined and purified mind, one should stay there for three nights; bathing each day, one should offer libations (tarpana) in satisfaction to the gods and to the ancestors.

Word by Word

तीर्थेat the sacred ford/place of pilgrimage

सलिलराजस्यof the king of waters (Varuṇa / the sea)

स्नात्वाhaving bathed

प्रयतमानसःone whose mind is disciplined/controlled

त्रिरात्रम्for three nights

उषितःhaving stayed/dwelt

स्नातःbathed (i.e., after bathing)

तर्पयेत्should satisfy/offer libations to

पितृदेवतान्the Pitṛs and the gods

Speaker

घुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Varuṇa (salilarāja)

tīrtha (sacred ford/pilgrimage site, identified as the sea in the given context)

Devas

Pitṛs (ancestors)

Character Dynamics

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 merely travel but a discipline: bathe with a restrained mind, remain for a prescribed period (three nights), and perform daily offerings that express reverence to gods and gratitude to ancestors—linking personal purification with social and cosmic obligations.

What is happening in the narrative?

Ghūlastya describes a specific tīrtha-observance at Varuṇa’s sacred place (understood here as the sea): the pilgrim bathes, stays three nights, and each day performs tarpaṇa for the devas and the pitṛs as part of the tīrtha-vidhi.