Shloka 4

आदि पर्व — खाण्डवदाह प्रसङ्गः: पावकस्य याचनं तथा इन्द्रवर्षनिवारणोपायः

Adi Parva — Khāṇḍava episode: Agni’s request and the means to resist Indra’s rain

Devanagari script

भारद्वाजस्य तीर्थ तु पापप्रशमनं महत्‌ | एतानि पज्च तीर्थानि ददर्श कुरुसत्तम:,उनके नाम इस प्रकार हैं--अगस्त्यतीर्थ, सौभद्र-तीर्थ, परम पावन पौलोमतीर्थ, अश्वमेध यज्ञका फल देनेवाला स्वच्छ कारन्धमतीर्थ तथा पापनाशक महान्‌ भारद्वाजतीर्थ। कुरुश्रेष्ठ अर्जुनने इन पाँचों तीर्थोका दर्शन किया

Transliteration

bhāradvājasya tīrthaṁ tu pāpa-praśamanaṁ mahat | etāni pañca tīrthāni dadarśa kuru-sattamaḥ ||

Translation

ไวศัมปายนะกล่าวว่า “ตีรถะของภารทวาชะนั้นยิ่งใหญ่ เป็นที่เลื่องลือว่าบรรเทาและดับบาปได้ กุรุผู้ประเสริฐ (อรชุน) ได้ไปเห็นตีรถะทั้งห้านั้น”

Word by Word

• {'bhāradvājasya': 'of Bhāradvāja (the sage

• genitive singular)', 'tīrtham': 'sacred ford

• holy bathing spot', 'tu': 'indeed

• but (emphatic particle)', 'pāpa': 'sin

• moral stain', 'praśamanam': 'pacification

• removal', 'mahat': 'great

• eminent', 'etāni': 'these (neuter plural)', 'pañca': 'five', 'tīrthāni': 'holy places (plural of tīrtha)', 'dadarśa': 'saw

• beheld (perfect of √dṛś)', 'kuru-sattamaḥ': 'the best among the Kurus (epithet

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Bhāradvāja
• Arjuna (Kuru-sattama)
• Bhāradvāja-tīrtha

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights tīrtha-yātrā as an ethical practice: sacred places are portrayed as instruments for pāpa-praśamana (the calming and removal of moral taint), encouraging self-restraint, repentance, and renewed commitment to dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that Arjuna, praised as the foremost of the Kurus, visits and beholds a set of five pilgrimage sites, among which Bhāradvāja’s tīrtha is singled out as especially powerful for removing sin.