Shloka 206
Omens and Consolation after Loss; Reaffirmation of the Saindhava Punishment Vow (उत्पात-दर्शनम्, आश्वासन-वाक्यानि, प्रतिज्ञा-स्थैर्यम्)
अप्सु वर्षसहस्राणि सप्त चैक॑ च सानयत् । तात! इसके बाद दस हजार पद्म वर्षोतक वह मृगोंके साथ विचरती रही, फिर शीतल एवं निर्मल जलवाली पुण्यमयी नन्दानदीमें जाकर उसके जलमें उसने आठ हजार वर्ष व्यतीत किये
apsu varṣasahasrāṇi sapta caikaṃ ca sā nayat | tāta! tataḥ paraṃ daśa-sahasra-padma-varṣāṇi sā mṛgaiḥ saha vicaratī rahā | punaḥ śītala-nirmala-jala-vālī puṇya-mayī nandā-nadīṃ gatvā tasya jale sā aṣṭa-sahasra-varṣāṇi vyatītavatī |
नारद उवाच—अप्सु वर्षसहस्राणि सप्त चैकं च सानयत्। ततः, तात, पद्मवर्षायुतान्यपि मृगैः सह विचचार सा। अनन्तरं शीतलनिर्मलसलिला पुण्या नन्दानदीं गत्वा तस्यां सलिलेऽष्टसहस्राणि वर्षाणि न्यवसत्॥
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage emphasizes the moral and spiritual weight of time spent in purifying environments—waters, wilderness companionship, and a sacred river—suggesting that endurance, restraint, and contact with tīrtha-like purity are transformative and karmically significant.
Nārada recounts a sequence of extraordinarily long periods: first living in water, then roaming with deer, and finally dwelling in the cool, pure waters of the sacred Nandā River for eight thousand years—describing stages of a being’s prolonged sojourn and purification.