Shloka 29
Adhyaya 18 — Arjuna Declines the Throne; Garga Directs Him to Dattatreya; The Gods Defeat the Daityas through Dattatreya’s Vision and the Movement of Lakshmi
देवा ऊचुः
अनघस्त्वं जगन्नाथ न लेपस्तव विद्यते ।
विद्याक्षालनशुद्धान्तर्निविष्टज्ञानदीधिते ॥
devā ūcuḥ
anaghas tvaṃ jagannātha na lepas tava vidyate |
vidyākṣālana-śuddhāntar-niviṣṭa-jñāna-dīdhite ||
देवा ऊचुः—हे निष्पाप जगन्नाथ, त्वयि कश्चिद् मलो न लिप्यते। ज्ञानशोधनशक्त्या तव अन्तःकरणं विशुद्धं, प्रज्ञातेजश्च तव अन्तःस्थं विराजते।
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FAQs
Ethically, it warns against judging sanctity by externals. Philosophically, it asserts that knowledge (vidyā/jñāna) burns or washes away impurity; the knower is not ‘smeared’ by contact the way an untrained mind is.
Didactic Ākhyāna reinforcing dharma and the supremacy of jñāna; not a cosmological (sarga/pratisarga) or genealogical (vaṃśa) unit.
‘Lepa’ is subtle karmic adhesion. The verse implies that when awareness is established in wisdom, karmic ‘stickiness’ does not adhere—an Upaniṣadic-style teaching expressed in Purāṇic narrative form.