Shloka 70
युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya
तत्रोष्य रजनीमेकां स्वर्गलोके महीयते । वहीं विमलाशोक नामक उत्तम तीर्थ है, वहाँ जाकर ब्रह्मचर्यपालनपूर्वक एकाग्रचित्त हो एक रात निवास करनेसे मनुष्य स्वर्गलोकमें प्रतिष्ठित होता है ।।
tatroṣya rajanīm ekāṁ svargaloke mahīyate | goprātāraṁ tato gacchet sarasyās tīrtham uttamam |
Having stayed there for a single night, a person becomes honored and established in the heavenly world. From there one should proceed to Goprātāra, an excellent sacred ford associated with the Sarasvatī. O great king, by the sanctifying power of that tīrtha, the hero Śrī Rāmacandra—together with his attendants, warriors, and conveyances—bathed there and then attained his eternal abode.
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that disciplined restraint and single-pointedness, when joined to reverent observance at a sacred place, purify a person and are said to lead to honor and establishment in heaven; it frames pilgrimage as an ethical-spiritual practice rather than mere travel.
The speaker continues a tīrtha-māhātmya sequence, stating the fruit of staying one night at a particular holy spot and then instructing the listener to proceed next to the sacred ford called Goprātāra, praised as an excellent tīrtha connected with the Sarasvatī.