Shloka 13
दक्षिणा-दिक्, पितृपक्ष-प्रतिष्ठा, तथा कर्मगतिः — Suparṇa’s Cosmographic Instruction
इसी दिशामें यज्ञोंद्वारा तृप्त हुए अग्निगण अपने योनिस्वरूप जलका उपभोग करते हैं। यहीं वरुणने पातालका आश्रय लेकर लक्ष्मीको प्राप्त किया था ।।
asmin diśi yajñair tṛptā agnayaḥ svayoni-bhūtaṃ jalam upabhuñjate | atraiva varuṇo pātālam āśritya lakṣmīm avāpa || atra pūrvaṃ vasiṣṭhasya paurāṇasya dvijarṣabha | sūtiś caiva pratiṣṭhā ca nidhanaṃ ca prakāśate ||
ユパルナは言った。「この方角において、祭祀によって満たされた火神の群れは、水—自らの胎なる源—を享受する。ここでもまた、ヴァルナ（Varuṇa）はパーターラ（Pātāla）に身を寄せてラクシュミー（Lakṣmī、繁栄と吉祥）を得た。そしてここに、再生者の中の雄牛よ、古の聖仙ヴァシシュタ（Vasiṣṭha）の誕生、七聖の列における尊位の確立、さらに終焉—ニミ（Nimi）の呪いによって身を捨てたこと—が明らかにされている。」
युपर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links ritual duty (yajña) with cosmic reciprocity: offerings sustain the divine fires, and the world’s elements return to their sources. It also underscores moral causality—status and even a great sage’s embodied life can be shaped by ethical and relational forces such as a curse.
Yuparṇa describes a particular sacred quarter associated with mythic events: the fires nourished by sacrifice, Varuṇa’s attaining Lakṣmī after resorting to Pātāla, and key milestones of Vasiṣṭha—his birth, his recognized standing among the seers, and his death due to King Nimi’s curse.