Shloka 37
युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya
रुद्रावर्त ततो गच्छेत् तीर्थसेवी नराधिप । तत्र स्नात्वा नरो राजन् स्वर्गलोक॑ च गच्छति,नरेश्वर! तदनन्तर तीर्थसेवी पुरुष रुद्रावर्ततीर्थमें जाय। राजन! वहाँ स्नान करके मनुष्य स्वर्गलोकमें जाता है
rudrāvarta tato gacchet tīrthasevī narādhipa | tatra snātvā naro rājan svargalokaṃ ca gacchati || nareśvara | tad-anantaraṃ tīrthasevī puruṣa rudrāvarta-tīrthaṃ yāyāt | rājan | tatra snātvā manuṣyaḥ svargalokaṃ gacchati ||
Ghūlastya dijo: «Luego, oh señor de los hombres, el peregrino debe dirigirse al vado sagrado llamado Rudrāvarta. Oh rey, tras bañarse allí, la persona alcanza el mundo celestial. Oh gobernante de los hombres, después de ello el devoto peregrino debe ir al tīrtha de Rudrāvarta; bañándose allí, llega al cielo».
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that disciplined pilgrimage—specifically visiting and bathing at a prescribed tīrtha—functions as a purifying religious act that yields spiritual merit, expressed here as attainment of heaven.
A speaker named Ghūlastya instructs a king on the sequence of a tīrtha-yātrā: the pilgrim should go next to the Rudrāvarta sacred ford, and bathing there is said to grant the fruit of reaching Svargaloka.