Shloka 63
Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti
Chapter 82
प्रभासते यथा सोम: सो<श्चमेधं च विन्दति । वरदान ततो गच्छेत् तीर्थ भरतसत्तम,ऐसा करनेवाला यात्री चन्द्रमाके समान प्रकाशित होता है। साथ ही उसे अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल मिलता है। भरतश्रेष्ठ! वहाँसे वरदानतीर्थमें जाय
prabhāsate yathā somaḥ so ’śvamedhaṃ ca vindati | varadānaṃ tato gacchet tīrtha bharatasattama |
Ang sinumang tumutupad sa ganitong pagtalima ay magniningning na gaya ng Buwan, at makakamit din ang kabutihang-katumbas ng handog na Aśvamedha. O pinakamainam sa angkan ng Bharata! Mula roon ay dapat siyang magpatuloy sa banal na tawiran na tinatawag na Varadāna—sa gayon iniuudyok ng nagsasalaysay ang manlalakbay na magpatuloy, at itinatanghal ang paglalakbay sa mga tīrtha bilang disiplina ng asal na nagpapadalisay at nagbubunga ng dakilang gantimpalang espirituwal.
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pilgrimage and prescribed observances at tīrthas are portrayed as powerful dharmic disciplines: they purify the practitioner and can confer merit likened to the highest Vedic sacrifices, symbolized here by the Aśvamedha and the Moon-like radiance.
The speaker (Ghūlastya) is guiding the listener through a sequence of sacred places: after describing the fruit of a particular practice, he instructs that the pilgrim should next go from there to the tīrtha named Varadāna.