Shloka 376
Dhaumya’s Enumeration of Eastern Tīrthas
Prācī-diś Tīrtha-kathana
जातिस्मरह्ददे स्नात्वा भवेज्जातिस्मरो नर: । तदनन्तर कृष्णवेणाके जलसे उत्पन्न हुए रमणीय देवकुण्डमें, जिसे जातिस्मर हृद कहते हैं, स्नान करे। वहाँ स्नान करनेसे मनुष्य जातिस्मर (पूर्वजन्मकी बातोंको स्मरण करनेकी शक्तिवाला) होता है
jātismarahṛdade snātvā bhavej jātismaro naraḥ |
Pulastya said: 'By bathing in the sacred pool called Jātismara-hṛda, a man becomes jātismara—endowed with the power to remember his former births.' In the narrative, this is presented as a tīrtha’s transformative merit: purification is not only bodily but also cognitive and moral, granting insight into the continuity of karma and responsibility across lives.
पुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred bathing (tīrtha-snāna) is portrayed as a means of inner transformation: it can awaken jātismaratā (past-life recollection), reinforcing the ethical vision that actions (karma) have continuity and consequences beyond a single lifetime.
Pulastya is describing a particular holy water-body, Jātismara-hṛda, and states its specific fruit (phala): anyone who bathes there gains the extraordinary capacity to remember previous births.