Shloka 59
Adhyaya 61 — The Second Manvantara Begins: The Brahmin’s Swift Journey and Varuthini’s Temptation on Himavat
इहासतो नैव जरा कदाचित्ते भविष्यति ।
त्रिदशानामियं भूमिर्यौवनोपचयप्रदा ॥
ihāsato naiva jarā kadācit te bhaviṣyati | tridaśānām iyaṃ bhūmir yauvanopacayapradā ||
ഇവിടെ വസിക്കുന്ന നിനക്ക് ഒരിക്കലും വാർദ്ധക്യം ഉദിക്കുകയില്ല. ഇത് ദേവഭൂമിയാണ്; യൗവനവർദ്ധന നൽകുന്ന സ്ഥലം.
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FAQs
The promise of youth and freedom from aging is presented as bait; dharmic literature often treats such offers as distractions from liberation and right conduct.
Not pancalakṣaṇa proper; it is narrative (ākhyāna) illustrating the ethical testing of a dharmic person.
Agelessness here can be read as the ego’s desire for permanence; the higher teaching is to seek the imperishable (ātman/dharma) rather than bodily youth.