Shloka 23
Plakṣāvataraṇa–Yamunā Tīrtha and Prajāpati’s Vedī
Kurukṣetra Threshold
यत्र स्नात्वा नरश्रेष्ठ धूतपाप्मा भविष्यसि । इह सारस्वतैयय॑ज्ञैरिष्टवन्त: सुरर्षय: । ऋषयश्नैव कौन्तेय तथा राजर्षयोडपि च
yatra snātvā naraśreṣṭha dhūtapāpmā bhaviṣyasi | iha sārasvatair yajñair iṣṭavantaḥ surarṣayaḥ | ṛṣayaś caiva kaunteya tathā rājarṣayo 'pi ca ||
“O best of men, by bathing at that place you will become cleansed of sin. Here, the divine seers have performed sacrifices in the Sarasvatī tradition; and so too, O son of Kuntī, have the sages and the royal seers.”
लोगश उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the dharmic idea that sacred places (tīrthas) and disciplined rites like bathing and sacrifice can support inner purification; it also grounds the place’s authority in the precedent of revered sages and royal seers who practiced there.
A speaker (Logaśa) points out a particular sacred location to the addressed Pāṇḍava (Kaunteya), praising it as a place where bathing removes sin and where divine seers, sages, and royal seers have performed Sarasvatī-associated sacrifices—thereby encouraging pilgrimage and observance.