Shloka 21
Mahāvasu’s Fall by Speech-Error and Release through Devotion (अज-विवादः वसोः शापः विमोचनं च)
प्रदक्षिणमवर्तन्त शुकाश्नाषाश्व भारत | भारत! सहसौ्रों हंस, शतपत्र, सारस, शुक और नीलकण्ठ आदि पक्षी उनकी प्रदक्षिणा करने लगे || २० $ ।। आरणेयस्ततो दिव्यं प्राप्प जन्म महाद्युति:
pradakṣiṇam avartanta śukāśnāśvā bhārata | bhārata! sahasrāṇi haṃsāḥ śatapatrāḥ sārasāḥ śukāś ca nīlakaṇṭhādayaḥ pakṣiṇaḥ teṣāṃ pradakṣiṇāṃ cakruḥ || āraṇeyas tato divyaṃ prāpya janma mahādyutiḥ ||
Sinabi ni Bhīṣma: “O Bhārata, nagsimulang umikot sa kanila ang mga ibon nang may paggalang, mula sa kanang panig. Libu-libong sisne, mga ibong śatapatra, mga tagak, mga loro, mga pabo-real at iba pang ibon ang nagsagawa ng pradakṣiṇā—pag-ikot na mapitagang pag-aalay—sa paligid nila. Pagkaraan, si Āraṇeya, na may dakilang ningning, ay nagkamit ng isang banal na kapanganakan.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Reverence shown to the worthy—here symbolized by creatures performing pradakṣiṇā—signals the presence of dharma and accumulated merit; such merit is portrayed as bearing fruit in an elevated, even divine, rebirth.
Bhīṣma describes an auspicious scene in which many kinds of birds circle the revered figures in a ritual-like manner, after which Āraṇeya is said to attain a divine birth, indicating a favorable karmic outcome.