Shloka 34

Devanagari script

सर्वाल्लोकान्‌ विचरते द्वितीय इव भास्कर: । छठे पारणमें इससे दूना और सातवेंमें तिगुना फल मिलता है। वह मनुष्य अप्सराओंसे भरे हुए और इच्छानुसार चलनेवाले, कैलासशिखरकी भाँति उज्ज्वल, वैदूर्यमणिकी वेदियोंसे विभूषित, नाना प्रकारसे सुसज्जित तथा मणियों और मूँगोंसे अलंकृत विमानपर बैठकर दूसरे सूर्यकी भाँति सम्पूर्ण लोकोंमें विचरता है || ३२-३३ ई ।। अष्टमे राजसूयस्य पारणे लभते फलम्‌,आठवें पारणमें मनुष्य राजसूय यज्ञका फल पाता है। वह मनके समान वेगशाली और चन्द्रमाकी किरणोंके समान रंगवाले श्वेत घोड़ोंसे जुते हुए चन्द्रोदयतुल्य रमणीय विमानपर आरूढ़ होता है

Transliteration

sarvāllokān vicarate dvitīya iva bhāskaraḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: He moves through all the worlds like a second sun. The passage describes the exalted posthumous reward gained by progressively greater observances: with the sixth completion the merit is doubled, with the seventh it is tripled; the person then rides a radiant, wish-moving aerial car—bright like the peak of Kailāsa, adorned with platforms of vaidūrya-gems, richly decorated with jewels and coral, and surrounded by apsarases—traversing the cosmos with solar splendor. With the eighth completion, one attains the fruit of the Rājasūya sacrifice, ascending a moonrise-like, delightful vimāna yoked to swift white horses, pale as moonbeams. The ethical frame is that disciplined religious observance and self-restraint are portrayed as generating cosmic merit and elevated states of being.

Word by Word

सर्वान्all

लोकान्worlds/realms

विचरतेwanders/moves about

द्वितीयःa second

इवas/like

भास्करःthe sun

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bhāskara (Sun)

Apsarases

Kailāsa

Vaidūrya (gem)

Vimāna (celestial chariot)

Rājasūya (sacrifice)

Candra (Moon)

White horses

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The text frames disciplined observance—especially the proper completion (pāraṇa) of vows/fasts—as a source of increasing spiritual merit, culminating in exalted, luminous states symbolized by a celestial vimāna and the attainment of great sacrificial fruit (Rājasūya).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana describes the rewards granted to a person who completes successive pāraṇas: from doubled and tripled merit to traveling through all worlds like a second sun in a gem-adorned vimāna amid apsarases, and finally, at the eighth completion, gaining the merit equivalent to the Rājasūya sacrifice and ascending a moonrise-like chariot drawn by swift white horses.