Shloka 48

ब्राह्मणपूजायां व्युष्टिः — Vyuṣṭi (Merit-Outcome) of Honoring Brāhmaṇas: Kṛṣṇa and Durvāsā

Devanagari script

मुनय ऊचु: यदाक्षर्यमचिन्त्यं च गिरौ हिमवति प्रभो । अनुभूत॑ मुनिगणैस्तीर्थयात्रापरैर्मुने

Transliteration

munaya ūcuḥ: yad akṣaryam acintyaṃ ca girau himavati prabho | anubhūtaṃ munigaṇais tīrthayātrāparair mune,

Translation

Les sages dirent : « Ô Seigneur, ô muni ! Pour le bien de toute la communauté des voyants, raconte dès le commencement à Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa ce prodige impérissable et inconcevable qui, sur la montagne de l’Himālaya, fut vu et éprouvé directement par des groupes de sages voués au pèlerinage des tīrtha. »

Word by Word

• {'munayaḥ': 'sages, seers (ṛṣis)', 'ūcuḥ': 'said, spoke', 'yad': 'that which

• whatever', 'akṣaryam': 'imperishable

• also ‘of the nature of the Akṣara (the Imperishable)’', 'acintyam': 'inconceivable

• beyond ordinary thought', 'ca': 'and', 'girau': 'on the mountain', 'himavati': 'in Himavat

• on the Himālaya', 'prabho': 'O Lord

• O master', 'anubhūtam': 'experienced directly

• realized', 'munigaṇaiḥ': 'by groups/assemblies of sages', 'tīrthayātrāparaiḥ': 'by those devoted to pilgrimage to sacred fords (tīrthas)', 'mune': 'O sage'}

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• मुनयः (the sages)
• वायुदेव (Vāyu-deva, as speaker heading)
• भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण (Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in the contextual gloss)
• हिमवत्/हिमालय (Himavat/Himālaya mountain)
• तीर्थयात्रा (pilgrimage to tīrthas)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes responsible transmission of sacred experience: extraordinary, ‘imperishable and inconceivable’ realizations gained through disciplined pilgrimage and ascetic life should be narrated truthfully and from the beginning for the welfare of the wider community, and conveyed to the highest moral authority (here, Śrī Kṛṣṇa).

What is happening in the narrative?

A group of pilgrimage-devoted sages address a revered figure (invoked as ‘Lord’ and ‘sage’), requesting him to recount—starting from the beginning—the wondrous, inconceivable event they experienced on the Himālaya, and to report it for the benefit of the sages, specifically to Śrī Kṛṣṇa (as indicated by the Gita Press contextual gloss).