Shloka 33
Tilā-Dāna, Dīpa-Dāna, and Nitya-Jalapradāna
Yama–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda) | तिलदान-दीपदान-नित्यजलप्रदान (यम-ब्राह्मण संवाद
कांस्योपदोहनां धेनुं रेवत्यां यः प्रयच्छति । सा प्रेत्य कामानादाय दातारमुपतिष्ठति
nārada uvāca |
kāṁsyopadohanāṁ dhenuṁ revatyāṁ yaḥ prayacchati |
sā pretya kāmān ādāya dātāram upatiṣṭhati ||
ರೇವತಿ ನಕ್ಷತ್ರಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಚಿನ ಹಾಲು ದೋಹಣಪಾತ್ರসহ ಧೇನುವನ್ನು ದಾನ ಮಾಡುವವನಿಗೆ, ದೇಹತ್ಯಾಗದ ನಂತರ ಆ ಧೇನು ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಾಮನೆಗಳ ಫಲಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊತ್ತು ದಾತನ ಸೇವೆಗೆ ಹಾಜರಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
That dāna performed with appropriate care—here, gifting a milch-cow equipped with a bronze milking vessel and done at an auspicious nakṣatra—yields enduring merit, symbolized by the gift itself becoming a source of support and enjoyment for the donor in the afterlife.
Nārada is enumerating the fruits of specific charitable gifts. In this verse he states that a cow donated with a bronze milking utensil during the Revatī lunar mansion will, after the donor’s death, appear in the next world bringing desired enjoyments and attending upon the donor.