Shloka 63
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
प्रभासते यथा सोम: सो<श्चमेधं च विन्दति । वरदान ततो गच्छेत् तीर्थ भरतसत्तम,ऐसा करनेवाला यात्री चन्द्रमाके समान प्रकाशित होता है। साथ ही उसे अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल मिलता है। भरतश्रेष्ठ! वहाँसे वरदानतीर्थमें जाय
prabhāsate yathā somaḥ so ’śvamedhaṃ ca vindati | varadānaṃ tato gacchet tīrtha bharatasattama |
Aquele que cumpre esta observância resplandece com brilho como a Lua e também alcança o mérito equivalente ao sacrifício do Aśvamedha. Ó o melhor dos Bhāratas! Dali, deve prosseguir para o vau sagrado chamado Varadāna—assim o narrador encaminha o peregrino adiante, apresentando a jornada pelos tīrtha como disciplina ética que purifica a conduta e concede elevada recompensa espiritual.
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pilgrimage and prescribed observances at tīrthas are portrayed as powerful dharmic disciplines: they purify the practitioner and can confer merit likened to the highest Vedic sacrifices, symbolized here by the Aśvamedha and the Moon-like radiance.
The speaker (Ghūlastya) is guiding the listener through a sequence of sacred places: after describing the fruit of a particular practice, he instructs that the pilgrim should next go from there to the tīrtha named Varadāna.