Shloka 20
स््नात्वा फलमवाप्रोति राजसूयस्य मानव: । राजेन्द्र! तदनन्तर जयन्तीमें सोमतीर्थके निकट जाय, वहाँ स्नान करनेसे मनुष्य राजसूययज्ञका फल पाता है ।। १९ # || एकहंसे नर: स्नात्वा गोसहस्रफलं लभेत्,एकहंसतीर्थमें स्नान करनेसे मनुष्य सहस्र गोदानका फल पाता है। नरेश्वर! कृतशौचतीर्थमें जाकर तीर्थसेवी मनुष्य पुण्डरीकयागका फल पाता और शुद्ध हो जाता है
snātvā phalam avāpnoti rājasūyasya mānavaḥ | rājendra! tad-anantaraṁ jayantīm̐ somatīrthasya nikaṭaṁ yāyāt, tatra snānena manuṣyo rājasūya-yajñasya phalaṁ prāpnoti || ekahaṁse naraḥ snātvā go-sahasra-phalaṁ labhet | nareśvara! kṛtaśauca-tīrthaṁ gatvā tīrtha-sevī manuṣyaḥ puṇḍarīka-yāgasya phalaṁ prāpya śuddho bhavati ||
Ghulasthya said: “By bathing (at this sacred place) a person attains the merit of the Rājasūya sacrifice. O king of kings, thereafter one should go to Jayantī near the Soma-tīrtha; bathing there grants a man the fruit of the Rājasūya rite. And by bathing at Ekahaṁsa-tīrtha a man gains the merit equal to gifting a thousand cows. O lord of men, having gone to Kṛtaśauca-tīrtha, a pilgrim devoted to holy places obtains the fruit of the Puṇḍarīka sacrifice and becomes purified.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage teaches that sincere pilgrimage and ritual bathing at specific tīrthas can confer the same ethical-religious merit as major royal sacrifices and large-scale gifts, emphasizing purification, devotion, and accessible paths to puṇya beyond elite ritual performance.
A guide/speaker (Ghulasthya) instructs the king about a sequence of sacred sites—Jayantī near Soma-tīrtha, Ekahaṁsa-tīrtha, and Kṛtaśauca-tīrtha—describing the spiritual rewards obtained by bathing there, equating them with renowned yajñas and dāna.