Shloka 79
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
सिन्धूत्तममिति ख्यातं सर्वपापप्रणाशनम् । तत्र स्नात्वा नरश्रेष्ठ लभेद् बहु सुवर्णकम्,भरतश्रेष्ठ! उस तीर्थमें वसुओंका पवित्र सरोवर है। उसमें स्नान और जलपान करनेसे मनुष्य वसु देवताओंका प्रिय होता है। नरश्रेष्ठ! वहीं सिन्धूत्तम नामसे प्रसिद्ध तीर्थ है, जो सब पापोंका नाश करनेवाला है। उसमें स्नान करनेसे प्रचुर स्वर्णराशिकी प्राप्ति होती है
sindhūttamam iti khyātaṁ sarvapāpapraṇāśanam | tatra snātvā naraśreṣṭha labhed bahu suvarṇakam ||
Ghūlastya said: “There is a sacred ford renowned as ‘Sindhūttama’, a destroyer of all sins. O best of men, by bathing there one gains abundant gold.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights tīrtha-snānā (ritual bathing at a sacred place) as a means of moral and ritual purification—‘destroying sins’—and presents the idea that dharmic acts performed in sanctified locations yield tangible and intangible rewards.
A speaker named Ghūlastya is describing the merits of a particular pilgrimage site called Sindhūttama, praising it as famous for removing sin and stating that bathing there brings great prosperity in the form of abundant gold.