Shloka 20
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
नृलोके देवदेवस्य तीर्थ त्रैलोक्यविश्रुतम् । पुष्करं नाम विख्यातं महाभाग: समाविशेत्,मनुष्यलोकमें देवाधिदेव ब्रह्माजीका त्रिलोक-विख्यात तीर्थ है, जो “पुष्कर' नामसे प्रसिद्ध है। उसमें कोई बड़भागी मनुष्य ही प्रवेश कर पाता है
nṛloke devadevasya tīrthaṃ trailokyaviśrutam | puṣkaraṃ nāma vikhyātaṃ mahābhāgaḥ samāviśet ||
In the human realm there is a sacred ford of the God of gods, renowned throughout the three worlds. It is celebrated by the name Puṣkara; only a truly fortunate person is able to enter and partake of it. The statement elevates pilgrimage as a rare moral opportunity—access to such sanctity is portrayed as the fruit of accumulated merit and right conduct.
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that access to highly sanctified places is not merely physical but moral and karmic: only the ‘mahābhāga’—one endowed with great merit and right disposition—truly gains entry and benefit, highlighting pilgrimage as an ethical-spiritual attainment.
The speaker points out a famed pilgrimage site on earth—Puṣkara—describing it as the celebrated tīrtha of the ‘God of gods’ and emphasizing its exceptional renown and the rarity of worthy access, as part of a broader tīrtha-related discourse in the Vana Parva.