Shloka 61
मानसतीर्थ-शौचप्रशंसा | Praise of the ‘Mental Tīrtha’ and the Marks of Purity
जो बारह महीनोंतक सदा तेरहवें दिन हविष्यात्र भोजन करता है, उसे देवसत्रका फल प्राप्त होता है ।।
bhīṣma uvāca | yo dvādaśa māsān yāvat sadā trayodaśe dine haviṣyāśanaṁ karoti, sa devasatrasya phalaṁ prāpnoti || raktapadmodayaṁ nāma vimānaṁ sādhayen naraḥ | jātarūpaprayuktaṁ ca ratnasañcayabhūṣitam || tasmin devakanyābhiḥ paripūrṇe divyābharaṇabhūṣite mahāśobhā bhavati | tatra pavitrā sugandhiḥ sadā pravartate, tad divyaṁ vimānaṁ vāyavyāstreṇa śobhayamānam ||
भीष्म उवाच—यः कश्चित् नरः द्वादशमासान् यावत् त्रयोदश्यां तिथौ नित्यं हविष्याशनं करोति, स देवसत्रफलम् आप्नोति। स च ‘रक्तपद्मोदय’ इति नाम्ना दिव्यं विमानं लभते—जातरूपप्रयुक्तं रत्नसञ्चयभूषितं; देवकन्याभिराकीर्णं दिव्याभरणशोभितं; पुण्यगन्धोदयं नित्यं, वायव्यास्त्रप्रभया विराजितं च।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Steady, time-bound self-restraint in diet and ritual conduct—performed with regularity over a full year—is presented as dharmic practice that yields great merit, comparable to major sacrificial rites, and culminates in exalted heavenly attainments.
Bhishma is describing the specific fruit of a vow: eating haviṣya on each thirteenth lunar day for twelve months. He then depicts the resulting reward as the attainment of a jewel-and-gold adorned celestial vimāna named Raktapadmodaya, populated by divine maidens and shining with divine splendor.