Shloka 23
Adhyaya 55 — Description of Jambudvipa: The Four Forests, Lakes, and Mountain Ranges Around Mount Meru; Bharata as the Karma-Bhumi
तस्मात् स्वर्गापवर्गौ च मानुष्यानारकावपि ।
तिर्यक्त्वमथवाप्यन्यत् नरः प्राप्नोति वै द्विज ॥
tasmāt svargāpavargau ca mānuṣya-nārakāv api | tiryaktvam athavāpy anyat naraḥ prāpnoti vai dvija ||
เพราะฉะนั้น โอทวิชะ บุคคลย่อมบรรลุสวรรค์และโมกษะได้ และย่อมไปสู่ความเป็นมนุษย์และคติแห่งนรกได้ด้วย หรือไปสู่กำเนิดเดรัจฉาน หรือสภาพอื่นใดก็ได้
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FAQs
Bhārata is the pivot of destiny: from deliberate action and insight here, one may rise to heaven, fall to hell, return as human, become animal, or attain mokṣa—highlighting moral agency and spiritual opportunity.
Sthāna with a karmic-soteriological doctrine; it connects cosmography to the Purāṇic purpose of guiding beings toward dharma and apavarga.
The list of destinies maps the spectrum of consciousness: ascent (svarga), release (apavarga), descent (naraka/tiryak), and return (mānuṣya), all hinging on choice and realization in the ‘action-field’.