Shloka 4
त्रिवर्गमूलनिश्चयः — Determining the Roots of Dharma, Artha, and Kāma
Mahābhārata, Śānti-parva 123
तदाप्रभृति राजेन्द्र ऋषिभि: संशितव्रतै: । मुञ्जपृष्ठ इति प्रोक्त: स देशो रुद्रसेवित:
tadāprabhṛti rājendra ṛṣibhiḥ saṃśitavrataiḥ | muñjapṛṣṭha iti proktaḥ sa deśo rudrasevitaḥ ||
Бхишма сказал: «С тех пор, о лучший из царей, риши строгих и выверенных обетов стали называть ту область “Мунджаприштха”. Это земля, освящённая поклонением и присутствием Рудры (Шивы)».
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how disciplined sages preserve sacred memory: a place becomes ethically and spiritually significant through austerity (vrata) and devotion to Rudra, and its very name records that sanctity for later generations.
Bhīṣma explains to the king that, from a particular earlier event, strict-vowed sages began calling a certain region ‘Muñjapṛṣṭha’, describing it as a land associated with and sanctified by Rudra (Śiva).