Shloka 39

Brāhmaṇya-प्रश्नः — The Inquiry into Attaining Brāhmaṇya

Mataṅga–Gardabhī Itihāsa

Devanagari script

वैवस्वतस्य तीर्थे च तीर्थभूतो भवेन्नर: । जो पवित्र भावसे मरुद्गण तीर्थ, पितरोंके आश्रम तथा वैवस्वततीर्थमें स्नान करता है, वह मनुष्य स्वयं तीर्थरूप हो जाता है || ३८ $ ।।

Transliteration

vaivasvatasya tīrthe ca tīrthabhūto bhavennaraḥ | yo pavitraṃ bhāvase marudgaṇa-tīrthaṃ pitṝṇām āśramaṃ tathā vaivasvata-tīrthe snānaṃ karoti sa manuṣyaḥ svayaṃ tīrtharūpo bhavati || tathā brahmasaraṃ gatvā bhāgīrathyāṃ kṛtodakaḥ pitṝṇāṃ tarpaṇaṃ kṛtvā tatraika-māsaṃ nirāhāro bhavati sa candralokaṃ prāpnoti |

Translation

ဝိုင်ဝස්ဝတ၏ တီရ္ထ (Vaivasvata-tīrtha) တွင်လည်းကောင်း၊ ထို့အတူ ဘ္ဟာဝသ-တီရ္ထ (Bhāvasa-tīrtha)၊ မရုဒ္ဂဏ-တီရ္ထ (Marudgaṇa-tīrtha) နှင့် ပိတೃ (Pitṛs) ၏ အာရှရမ်တွင်လည်းကောင်း ရေချိုးသန့်စင်သူသည် ကိုယ်တိုင်တီရ္ထဖြစ်လာသည်—သူ၏ရှိနေခြင်းပင် သန့်စင်စေတတ်သည်။ ထို့ပြင် ဘြဟ္မ-သရသ် (Brahma-saras, Puṣkara) သို့သွား၍ ဘ္ဟာဂီရထီ (Bhāgīrathī—ဂင်္ဂါ) တွင် ရေချိုးကာ ဘိုးဘွားတို့အား တရ္ပဏ (libations) ပူဇော်ပြီး တစ်လပတ်လုံး အစာမစားဘဲ နေသူသည် စိုးမလောက—လကမ္ဘာကို ရောက်သည်။

Word by Word

• वैवस्वतस्य: of Vaivasvata (Yama)
• वैवस्वतस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैवस्वत
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• तीर्थे: at the sacred ford/pilgrimage place
• तीर्थे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• तीर्थभूतः: having become a tīrtha; tīrtha-embodied
• तीर्थभूतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तीर्थभूत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भवेत्: would become / becomes (as a result)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• नरः: a man
• नरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

अजड्रिय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaivasvata (Yama)
• Vaivasvata-tīrtha
• Bhāvasa-tīrtha
• Marudgaṇa-tīrtha
• Pitṛs (ancestors)
• Pitṛ-āśrama (hermitage of the ancestors)
• Brahma-saras (Brahma lake)
• Puṣkara (implied identification)
• Bhāgīrathī (Ganga)
• Candra-loka (Moon-world)
• Maruts (implied by Marudgaṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Pilgrimage is presented as ethical self-cultivation: by bathing at revered tīrthas, honoring the ancestors through tarpaṇa, and practicing sustained fasting, a person becomes inwardly purifying (tīrthabhūta) and earns elevated posthumous states such as Candraloka.

What is happening in the narrative?

Ajadriya enumerates specific sacred sites and rites—Vaivasvata-tīrtha and other tīrthas, then Brahma-saras (Pushkara) and the Bhāgīrathī—describing the spiritual results: becoming ‘a tīrtha’ oneself, and attaining the Moon-world through bathing, ancestral offerings, and a month-long fast.