Shloka 92
युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya
ब्राह्मणेन भवेच्चीर्ण व्रतं द्वादशवार्षिकम् । इतरेषां तु वर्णानां सर्वपापं प्रणश्यति,वहाँ यात्रा करनेसे ब्राह्मणको बारह वर्षोंतक व्रतके पालन करनेका फल प्राप्त होता है और अन्य वर्णके लोगोंके सारे पाप नष्ट हो जाते हैं
brāhmaṇena bhavec cīrṇaṁ vrataṁ dvādaśavārṣikam | itareṣāṁ tu varṇānāṁ sarvapāpaṁ praṇaśyati ||
Ghūlastya said: “By undertaking that pilgrimage, a Brahmin gains the merit equal to having observed a twelve-year vow; and for people of the other social orders, all sin is destroyed.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pilgrimage to a sacred place can yield immense spiritual merit: for a Brahmin it equals the fruit of a rigorous twelve-year vow, and for others it functions as a powerful means of moral purification, destroying accumulated sin.
Ghūlastya is describing the extraordinary efficacy of a particular sacred journey (tīrtha-yātrā), explaining its results for different varṇas in terms of merit (puṇya) and the removal of sin (pāpa).