Shloka 63
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
प्रभासते यथा सोम: सो<श्चमेधं च विन्दति । वरदान ततो गच्छेत् तीर्थ भरतसत्तम,ऐसा करनेवाला यात्री चन्द्रमाके समान प्रकाशित होता है। साथ ही उसे अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल मिलता है। भरतश्रेष्ठ! वहाँसे वरदानतीर्थमें जाय
prabhāsate yathā somaḥ so ’śvamedhaṃ ca vindati | varadānaṃ tato gacchet tīrtha bharatasattama |
この行を守り行う者は月のごとく光り輝き、さらにアシュヴァメーダ（馬供犠）に等しい功徳を得る。おお、バーラタ族の最勝者よ！ そこより「ヴァラダーナ」と呼ばれる聖なる渡し（ティールタ）へ進むべし——語り手はかくして巡礼者を先へ導き、ティールタ巡りを、行いを清め高き霊的果報をもたらす倫理の修行として示すのである。
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pilgrimage and prescribed observances at tīrthas are portrayed as powerful dharmic disciplines: they purify the practitioner and can confer merit likened to the highest Vedic sacrifices, symbolized here by the Aśvamedha and the Moon-like radiance.
The speaker (Ghūlastya) is guiding the listener through a sequence of sacred places: after describing the fruit of a particular practice, he instructs that the pilgrim should next go from there to the tīrtha named Varadāna.