Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 28 Shloka 24 - Mahabharata | Sanskrit | Vedapath

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Shloka 24

Brāhmaṇya-प्रश्नः — The Inquiry into Attaining Brāhmaṇya

Mataṅga–Gardabhī Itihāsa

Devanagari script

कालिकाश्रममासाद्य विपाशायां कृतोदक: । ब्रह्मचारी जितक्रोधस्त्रिसत्रं मुच्यते भवात्‌

Transliteration

Kālikāśramam āsādya Vipāśāyāṁ kṛtodakaḥ | Brahmacārī jitakrodhas trisatraṁ mucyate bhavāt ||

Translation

कालिकाश्रममासाद्य विपाशायां कृतोदकः । ब्रह्मचारी जितक्रोधस्त्रिरात्रं मुच्यते भवात् ॥

Word by Word

कालिकाश्रमम्the Kālikā-āśrama (hermitage)

आसाद्यhaving reached

विपाशायाम्in/at the Vipāśā (river)

कृतोदकःone who has performed the water-rite (bath/ablution)

ब्रह्मचारीa celibate/student observing brahmacarya

जितक्रोधःhaving conquered anger

त्रिसत्रम्a three-night period (three nights)

मुच्यतेis released / becomes free

भवात्from worldly existence (saṃsāra)

Speaker

अजड्रिय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Ajadriya (speaker)

Kālikāśrama

Vipāśā River

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?

Sacred places yield their highest fruit when approached with inner discipline: performing proper rites, maintaining brahmacarya, and conquering anger. The verse links external pilgrimage with ethical self-mastery as the condition for liberation from saṃsāra (bhava).

What is happening in the narrative?

Ajadriya describes a tīrtha-observance: one goes to the Kālikā hermitage, performs water-rites at the Vipāśā River (including ancestral offerings), and lives there for three nights while practicing celibacy and angerlessness; such a person is said to attain release from worldly bondage.