Shloka 5636

Devanagari script

अन्तरा चैव नाश्नाति तस्य लोका हानामया: । जो लोग छठी राततक उपवास करते हैं, वे मोर जुते हुए विमानोंद्वारा जाते हैं। पाण्डुनन्दन! जो लोग एक बार भोजन करके उसीपर तीन रात काट ले जाते हैं और बीचमें भोजन नहीं करते, उन्हें रोग-शोकसे रहित पुण्यलोक प्राप्त होते हैं

Transliteration

antarā caiva nāśnāti tasya lokā hānāmayāḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana berkata: “Sesiapa yang menahan diri daripada makan pada sela waktunya akan mencapai alam-alam yang bebas daripada kemerosotan dan penyakit. Mereka yang berpuasa hingga malam keenam dikatakan berangkat dengan vimāna yang ditarik burung merak. Wahai putera Pāṇḍu, mereka yang makan sekali sahaja lalu menempuh tiga malam dengan bersandar pada makanan itu—tanpa makan di antaranya—akan memperoleh loka yang penuh pahala, tidak disentuh penyakit dan dukacita.”

Word by Word

अन्तराin between; meanwhile

चand

एवindeed; just

नnot

अश्नातिeats

तस्यof him/that

लोकाःworlds; realms

हानामयाःfree from decline and disease

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Pāṇḍunandana (son of Pāṇḍu)

puṇyaloka (meritorious realms)

mayūra-yukta vimāna (peacock-yoked aerial car)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage teaches that disciplined restraint in eating—undertaken as a vrata—generates puṇya, leading to exalted posthumous states described as realms free from decline, disease, and sorrow. It frames bodily self-control as an ethical-spiritual practice with karmic results.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is describing to a Pāṇḍava (addressed as ‘son of Pāṇḍu’) the specific fruits of certain fasting patterns: fasting up to six nights is poetically rewarded with travel in peacock-yoked vimānas, while eating once and then abstaining for three nights yields access to meritorious, affliction-free worlds.