Shloka 30

युधिष्ठिरस्य अर्जुनप्रेषण-युक्तिवर्णनम् | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rationale for Sending Arjuna and Request to Dhaumya

Devanagari script

ततः कनखले स्नात्वा त्रिरात्रोपोषितो नर: । अश्वमेधमवाप्रोति स्वर्गलोक॑ च गच्छति,तदनन्तर कनखलमें स्नान करके तीन रात उपवास करनेवाला मनुष्य अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल पाता और स्वर्ग-लोकमें जाता है

Transliteration

tataḥ kanakhale snātvā trirātro-poṣito naraḥ | aśvamedham avāpnoti svargalokaṃ ca gacchati ||

Translation

Затем, омывшись в Канакхале (Kanakhala) и соблюдая пост три ночи, человек обретает заслугу жертвоприношения Ашвамедха (Aśvamedha) и отправляется в небесный мир.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

कनखलेin Kanakhala

स्नात्वाhaving bathed

त्रिरात्रthree nights (a period of three nights)

उपोषितःhaving fasted

नरःa man

अश्वमेधम्the Aśvamedha (sacrifice/its merit)

अवाप्नोतिattains, obtains

स्वर्गलोकम्the heavenly world

चand

गच्छतिgoes

Speaker

घुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kanakhala

Aśvamedha

Svargaloka

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that sincere pilgrimage and disciplined austerity—here, bathing at a sacred tīrtha and fasting for three nights—can yield extraordinary spiritual merit, symbolically equated with the famed Aśvamedha, and lead toward higher posthumous realms (svarga).

What is happening in the narrative?

A speaker describes the fruit of a specific tīrtha-observance at Kanakhala: after bathing there and fasting for three nights, a person is said to gain the merit of performing an Aśvamedha sacrifice and to attain heaven.