Shloka 333
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
पुष्करे स्नातमात्रस्य सर्वमेव प्रणश्यति । स्त्री अथवा पुरुषने जन्मसे लेकर वर्तमान अवस्थातक जितने भी पाप किये हैं, पुष्करतीर्थमें स्नान करनेमात्रसे वे सब पाप नष्ट हो जाते हैं
puṣkare snātamātrasya sarvam eva praṇaśyati | strī athavā puruṣaḥ janmase vartamāna-avasthā-tak jitne bhī pāpa kiye haiṃ, puṣkaratīrtha-meṃ snāna karane-mātrase ve sab pāpa naṣṭa ho jāte haiṃ |
Ghūlastya said: “For one who has merely bathed at Puṣkara, everything sinful is destroyed. Whether a woman or a man, whatever sins have been committed from birth up to the present condition are wiped away simply by bathing in the sacred ford of Puṣkara.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches the purificatory power attributed to tīrtha-bathing: sincere contact with a sacred place (here Puṣkara) is said to destroy accumulated pāpa, emphasizing repentance, renewal, and the dharmic value of pilgrimage.
A speaker named Ghūlastya is praising Puṣkara as a powerful tīrtha, declaring that merely bathing there eradicates sins for anyone—woman or man—thus encouraging pilgrimage and ritual purification within the Vana Parva’s tīrtha-mahātmya context.