Shloka 5

Devanagari script

अहोरात्रेण द्वादश्यां माघमासे तु माधवम्‌ । राजसूयमवाप्नोति कुलं चैव समुद्धरेत्‌,माघमासकी द्वादशी तिथिको दिन-रात उपवास करके भगवान्‌ माधवकी पूजा करनेसे उपासकको राजसूय यज्ञका फल प्राप्त होता है और वह अपने कुलका उद्धार कर देता है

Transliteration

ahorātreṇa dvādaśyāṁ māghamāse tu mādhavam | rājasūyam avāpnoti kulaṁ caiva samuddharet ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。マーガ月のドヴァーダシーに、昼夜を通して断食し、マーダヴァを礼拝するなら、その帰依者はラージャスーヤ祭に等しい功徳を得、さらに自らの一族をも救い上げる。

Word by Word

अहोरात्रेणby (observing) a day-and-night (fast)

द्वादश्याम्on the Dvādaśī (lunar day)

माघमासेin the month of Māgha

तुindeed/and

माधवम्Mādhava (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)

राजसूयम्the Rājasūya (sacrifice/its merit)

अवाप्नोतिattains/obtains

कुलम्family/lineage

चand

एवindeed/just

समुद्धरेत्would uplift/deliver (redeem)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Mādhava (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)

Māgha (month)

Dvādaśī (tithi)

Rājasūya (sacrifice)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A disciplined observance—fasting for a full day and night on Māgha Dvādaśī and worshipping Mādhava—can confer extraordinary merit, comparable to the grand Rājasūya sacrifice, and its spiritual benefit is portrayed as extending to the devotee’s entire lineage.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instruction on dharma and religious duties, he recommends a specific sacred observance (Māgha Dvādaśī fast with worship of Mādhava) and states its fruits: attainment of Rājasūya-like merit and the uplift of one’s family line.