Shloka 3

Kapālamocana-tīrtha (Auśanasa) and Balarāma’s Sarasvatī Pilgrimage

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच राजन्‌ सप्त सरस्वत्यो याभिव्यप्तमिदं जगत्‌ । आहूता बलवद्धिह्िं तत्र तत्र सरस्वती

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca rājān sapta sarasvatyo yābhir vyāptam idaṃ jagat | āhūtā balavad dhiḥiṃ tatra tatra sarasvatī ||

Translation

Вайшампаяна сказал: О царь, есть семь рек, именуемых Сарасвати, которыми пронизан весь этот мир. Где бы могучие риши, наделённые силой подвижничества, ни призвали Сарасвати, там и там она являлась, отвечая на их зов.

Word by Word

• वैशम्पायनः: Vaiśampāyana
• वैशम्पायनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैशम्पायन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• सप्त: seven
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्त
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• सरस्वत्यः: Sarasvatīs (rivers named Sarasvatī)
• सरस्वत्यः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सरस्वती
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• याभिः: by which
• याभिः: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Plural

• व्याप्तम्: pervaded
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्याप्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• इदम्: this
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• जगत्: world
• Type: Noun
• Root: जगत्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• आहूताः: having been invoked/called
• Type: Verb
• Root: आह्वा
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• बलवत्: powerfully, with force (as an adverbial accusative)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बलवत्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• इह: here
• इह: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• तत्र: there (wherever)
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• सरस्वती: Sarasvatī
• सरस्वती: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सरस्वती
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• King (rājan)
• Sarasvatī (seven Sarasvatīs)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes the efficacy of tapas and righteous invocation: sacred power responds to disciplined, dharmic effort, and the divine (Sarasvatī) becomes present wherever sincerely called by spiritually potent sages.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana explains to the king that multiple rivers known as Sarasvatī pervade the world, and that Sarasvatī appears wherever great ascetics have invoked her—highlighting her widespread, responsive sacred presence.