Shloka 77
Nāgendra–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda: Praśna-vidhi and Dharmic Approach on the Gomatī Riverbank
आराध्य तपसोग्रेण देवं हयशिरोधरम् । पज्चालेन क्रम: प्राप्तो देवेन पथि देशिते
Vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca |
ārādhya tapasogreṇa devaṃ hayaśirodharam |
pañcālena kramaḥ prāpto devena pathi deśite ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana dijo: Adorando con austeridades feroces al dios de cabeza de caballo—Hayagrīva—el sabio Gálava, del país de Pañcāla, obtuvo la ordenada disposición de los Vedas, siguiendo el sendero que la deidad misma le había mostrado.
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.