Shloka 25
Nakula’s Declaration and the Uñchavṛtti Brāhmaṇa’s Superior Merit (Āśvamedhika Parva, Adhyāya 92)
दिव्याक्षाप्सरसां संघा गन्धर्वाश्व॒ सकिन्नरा:
divyākṣāpsarasāṃ saṅghā gandharvāś ca kinnaraḥ
വൈശമ്പായനൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ദിവ്യ അപ്സരസ്സുകളുടെ സംഘങ്ങളും, ഗന്ധർവന്മാരും കിന്നരന്മാരും അവിടെ സന്നിഹിതരായിരുന്നു.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores that righteous royal rites and world-ordering acts are portrayed as harmonizing with the cosmos: the presence of celestial beings signifies approval, auspiciousness, and the alignment of human action with dharma.
The narrator describes a scene attended by divine assemblies—Apsarases, Gandharvas, and Kinnaras—indicating that the ongoing event in the Aśvamedhika context is grand, sacred, and witnessed by beings from higher realms.