Shloka 9
Adhyaya 61 — The Second Manvantara Begins: The Brahmin’s Swift Journey and Varuthini’s Temptation on Himavat
अभ्यर्थितस्तु तेनासौ श्रद्धापूतेन चेतसा ।
तस्याचख्यौ स देशांश्च रम्याणि नगराणि च ॥
abhyarthitas tu tenāsau śraddhā-pūtena cetasā |
tasyācakhyau sa deśāṁś ca ramyāṇi nagarāṇi ca ||
Requested by him with a mind purified by faith, that man then told him of various regions and also delightful cities.
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FAQs
Śraddhā is presented as the inner purity that makes one fit to receive knowledge; the guest responds to sincere, reverent inquiry.
Ākhyāna/Upākhyāna (descriptive narrative), with incidental bhūgolika (geographical) coloring.
The ‘regions and cities’ can be read outwardly as geography and inwardly as stations of experience—knowledge unfolds as one becomes ‘fit’ through śraddhā.