Shloka 51
यादवक्षयः, बलराम-निर्याणम्, कृष्णस्य उपसंहारः (प्रभासे विनाशः)
ततो ऽर्घम् आदाय तदा जलधिः संमुखं ययौ प्रविवेश च तत्तोयं पूजितः पन्नगोत्तमैः
tato 'rgham ādāya tadā jaladhiḥ saṃmukhaṃ yayau praviveśa ca tattoyaṃ pūjitaḥ pannagottamaiḥ
ततोऽर्घ्यमादाय तदा जलधिः संमुखं ययौ; तस्मिन्नेव जले प्रविवेश च, पन्नगोत्तमैः पूजितोऽभवत्।
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
FAQs
Arghya is a formal water-offering that marks reverence and rightful reception; here it signals that the encounter with the Ocean is framed within dharma and sacred protocol, not mere physical movement.
By depicting the Ocean as approaching ‘face to face’ and the Nāgas offering worship, the narration presents the cosmos as morally ordered—its powers respond to rightful authority and sacred presence within the Purāṇic worldview.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the scene reflects a Vaishnava cosmology where cosmic forces (ocean, nāga-lords) participate in an order ultimately grounded in the Supreme Reality that Vishnu represents.