Shloka 7

Tīrtha-yātrā: Prayāga-saṅgama and Gayaśiras—Rājarṣi Gaya’s Mahāyajña

Devanagari script

तव वीर्यपरित्राता: शुद्धास्तीर्थपरिप्लुता: । भवेम धूतपाप्मानस्तीर्थसंदर्शनान्नप,“नरेश्वरर आपके बल-पराक्रमसे सुरक्षित हो हम भी तीर्थोमें स्नान करके शुद्ध हो जायँगे और उन तीर्थोंके दर्शनसे हमारे सब पाप धुल जायूँगे

Transliteration

tava vīryaparitrātāḥ śuddhās tīrthapariplutāḥ | bhavema dhūtapāpmānas tīrthasaṃdarśanān nṛpa ||

Translation

ഹേ നരേശ്വരാ! നിങ്ങളുടെ വീര്യത്തിന്റെ സംരക്ഷണത്തിൽ ഞങ്ങൾ തീർത്ഥങ്ങളിൽ സ്നാനം ചെയ്ത് ശുദ്ധരാവും; ആ തീർത്ഥദർശനം മാത്രത്താൽ തന്നെ ഞങ്ങളുടെ പാപങ്ങൾ കഴുകിപ്പോകും.

Word by Word

तवof you/your

वीर्य-परित्राताःprotected by (your) valor

शुद्धाःpure

तीर्थ-परिप्लुताःbathed/immersed in holy places

भवेमmay we become

धूत-पाप्मानःwith sins washed away

तीर्थ-संदर्शनात्from seeing the holy places

नृपO king

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

nṛpa (king)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse affirms a dharmic ideal: righteous protection by a capable ruler enables others to pursue sacred duties such as pilgrimage, and contact with tīrthas—through bathing and even mere darśana—is portrayed as a means of moral purification (removal of pāpa).

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker expresses confidence that, under the king’s protection and prowess, they will be able to undertake a tīrtha-journey, bathe at holy sites, and thereby become purified, with sins washed away through visiting and seeing those places.