अप्सरस ऊचुः । लोभावृतो ह्ययं विप्रो लोभात्पापस्य संग्रहः । हनूमन्तेश्वरे राजन्ये मृताः सत्त्वमास्थिताः
apsarasa ūcuḥ | lobhāvṛto hyayaṃ vipro lobhātpāpasya saṃgrahaḥ | hanūmanteśvare rājanye mṛtāḥ sattvamāsthitāḥ
اپسراؤں نے کہا: یہ برہمن یقیناً لالچ کے پردے میں ڈوبا ہوا ہے؛ لالچ ہی گناہ کے انبار کا سبب بنتا ہے۔ مگر ہنومانتیश्वर میں جو راج وंश کے لوگ مرے، انہوں نے سَتّو (ثباتِ نیکی) کو پا لیا۔
Apsarases
Tirtha: Hanūmanteśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied royal interlocutor within the episode (context continues with Śatabāhu)
Scene: Apsarases speak as luminous witnesses, pointing to a brāhmaṇa clouded by greed; in the background stands a Śiva-linga shrine named Hanūmanteśvara, with royal warriors’ souls rising upward in sattva.
Greed obscures dharma and gathers sin, while dying in a sanctified field of merit like Hanūmanteśvara is portrayed as leading to sattva and upliftment.
Hanūmanteśvara, explicitly named as the place where an auspicious spiritual state is attained.
No explicit ritual; it gives an ethical diagnosis (lobha) and a tīrtha-based spiritual outcome (attaining sattva).