Shloka 376

Dhaumya’s Enumeration of Eastern Tīrthas

Prācī-diś Tīrtha-kathana

Devanagari script

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

Transliteration

jātismarahṛdade snātvā bhavej jātismaro naraḥ |

Translation

プラースティヤは言った。「聖なる池ジャーティスマラ・フリダ（Jātismara-hṛda）で沐浴すれば、人はジャーティスマラとなり、前生を想起する力を得る。」

Word by Word

जातिस्मरह्रदेin the Jātismara lake

स्नात्वाhaving bathed

भवेत्would become / should become

जातिस्मरःone who remembers former births

नरःa man

Speaker

पुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Pulastya

Jātismara-hṛda (sacred lake/pool)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.