Shloka 2736

Go-mahātmyam: Pavitrāṇāṃ Pavitraṃ

Cows and Ghee as Supreme Purifiers

Devanagari script

प्रसादयामास मनस्तेन रुद्रस्य भारत । भरतनन्दन! ऐसा कहकर प्रजापतिने महादेवजीको बहुत-सी गौएँ और एक बैल भेंट किये तथा इसी उपायके द्वारा उनके मनको प्रसन्न किया

Transliteration

prasādayāmāsa manas tena rudrasya bhārata | bharatanandana! evaṃ uktvā prajāpatiḥ mahādevajīṃ bahu-gāvaḥ ekaṃ vṛṣabhaṃ ca bhent kṛtvā, anena upāyena tasya manaḥ prasannaṃ cakāra |

Translation

भीष्म म्हणाले—हे भारत! याच उपायाने प्रजापतीने रुद्राचे मन प्रसन्न केले. हे भरतनंदना! असे म्हणून प्रजापतीने महादेवांना अनेक गायी आणि एक बैल अर्पण केला, आणि याच विधीने प्रभूंचे समाधान घडविले.

Word by Word

• प्रसादयामास: pleased, gratified
• प्रसादयामास: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्रसादय् (प्रसादयति)
• Form: लिट् (परस्मैपद, परोक्षभूत/परफेक्ट), 3, singular

• मनः: mind
• मनः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनस्
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• तेन: by that (means)
• तेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine/neuter, instrumental, singular

• रुद्रस्य: of Rudra (Śiva)
• रुद्रस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: रुद्र
• Form: masculine, genitive, singular

• भारत: O Bhārata
• Type: Noun
• Root: भारत
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Rudra (Shiva)
• Prajapati
• Mahadeva (Shiva)
• Bharata (address)
• Bharatanandana (address)
• cows
• bull

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage highlights a dharmic method of reconciliation: when a powerful deity (or authority) is displeased, sincere words followed by appropriate offerings (dāna) can restore harmony. It underscores respect, humility, and the ethical use of gifts as a means to pacify anger and re-establish auspiciousness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma narrates that Prajapati, after speaking in a conciliatory manner, offers many cows and a bull to Rudra/Mahadeva. Through this act, he succeeds in pleasing Rudra’s mind.