Shloka 92
युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya
ब्राह्मणेन भवेच्चीर्ण व्रतं द्वादशवार्षिकम् । इतरेषां तु वर्णानां सर्वपापं प्रणश्यति
brāhmaṇena bhavec cīrṇaṁ vrataṁ dvādaśavārṣikam | itareṣāṁ tu varṇānāṁ sarvapāpaṁ praṇaśyati ||
Ghūlastya said: “By undertaking that pilgrimage, a Brahmin gains the merit equal to having observed a twelve-year vow; and for people of the other social orders, all sin is destroyed.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pilgrimage to a sacred place can yield immense spiritual merit: for a Brahmin it equals the fruit of a rigorous twelve-year vow, and for others it functions as a powerful means of moral purification, destroying accumulated sin.
Ghūlastya is describing the extraordinary efficacy of a particular sacred journey (tīrtha-yātrā), explaining its results for different varṇas in terms of merit (puṇya) and the removal of sin (pāpa).