Shloka 73
स्नायीत भास्मना तत्र अभिगम्य वृषध्वजम् । ब्राह्मणानां भवेद्देवि व्रतं द्वादशवार्षिकम् ॥ ७३ ॥
snāyīta bhāsmanā tatra abhigamya vṛṣadhvajam | brāhmaṇānāṃ bhaveddevi vrataṃ dvādaśavārṣikam || 73 ||
នៅទីនោះ គួរងូតទឹកដោយផេះបរិសុទ្ធ ហើយចូលទៅគោរពជិត ព្រះវೃಷធ្វជ (Vṛṣadhvaja—ព្រះសិវៈ)។ ឱ ទេវី សម្រាប់ព្រះព្រាហ្មណ៍ វត្តនេះក្លាយជាព្រហ្មចារីវត្តរយៈដប់ពីរឆ្នាំ។
Unspecified (dialogue voice addressing Devī; likely a Purāṇic narrator within the Uttara-Bhāga)
Vrata: Dvādaśavārṣika-vrata (twelve-year vow)
Rasa: {"primary_rasa":"bhakti","secondary_rasa":"shanta","emotional_journey":"From ritual purification (ash-bath) to reverent approach to Vṛṣadhvaja (Śiva), culminating in the gravity of a long vow (twelve years)."}
FAQs
It links purification (bhasma-snāna) with direct worship of Śiva (Vṛṣadhvaja) and frames the act as a rigorous, merit-bearing vrata—especially weighty when undertaken by brāhmaṇas for an extended twelve-year term.
Bhakti here is expressed as disciplined approach (abhigamya) and ritual purity leading to darśana/worship of the deity; devotion is not only feeling but sustained commitment through a long vrata.
Kalpa (ritual procedure) is implied: bathing rites with bhasma, rules of approach to a deity, and the formal classification of a dvādaśavārṣika (twelve-year) vrata as a structured observance.