Shloka 68

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

गोप्रेक्षकम् अथागम्य दृष्ट्वा मामत्र मानवः न दुर्गतिमवाप्नोति कल्मषैश् च विमुच्यते

Transliteration

goprekṣakam athāgamya dṛṣṭvā māmatra mānavaḥ na durgatimavāpnoti kalmaṣaiś ca vimucyate

Translation

ゴープレークシャカに来て、ここで我を拝する者は、悪しき行き先に堕ちない。さらにカルマシャ（穢れ）からも解き放たれる。

Word by Word

• गोप्रेक्षकम्: (to) Goprekṣaka (a sacred Shiva-site/tīrtha)

• अथ: then/thereupon

• आगम्य: having come

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen/after beholding

• माम्: Me (Śiva as Pati)

• अत्र: here (in this kṣetra)

• मानवः: a human being (pāśa-bound pashu)

• न: not

• दुर्गतिम्: evil state/inauspicious rebirth

• अवाप्नोति: attains/reaches

• कल्मषैः: from sins/impurities

• च: and

• विमुच्यते: is freed/released

Speaker

Shiva (as the presiding Lord of the kṣetra), within Suta’s narration to the sages