गोदावर्य्यां भवेत्पुण्यं वसतो वर्षसंख्यया । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति गोमतीसेवनाद्द्विजाः
godāvaryyāṃ bhavetpuṇyaṃ vasato varṣasaṃkhyayā | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti gomatīsevanāddvijāḥ
おお、二度生まれし者(ドヴィジャ)よ。ゴーダーヴァリー(Godāvarī)のほとりに多年住して得る功徳—その果は、聖なるゴーマティー(Gomatī)に信心をもって仕え親しむだけで得られる。
Sūta (deduced from Prabhāsakhaṇḍa māhātmya-style narration)
Tirtha: Gomatī (Dvārakā)
Type: ghat
Listener: Dvijāḥ (twice-born) as addressed audience
Scene: A devotee repeatedly visits the Gomatī ghāṭa, sweeping steps, offering water and lamps, greeting brāhmaṇas; a faint overlay shows distant Godāvarī landscapes symbolically ‘contained’ within Gomatī’s sanctity.
Devotional contact and service to a powerful tīrtha can bestow vast merit, even comparable to long austerities elsewhere.
The Gomati river/tīrtha associated with Dvārakā is praised as exceptionally merit-giving.
Tīrtha-sevā—reverent attendance upon and devotional association with the Gomati.