गते बहुतिथेकाले प्राच्यौदीच्यां भृशार्दिताः । चण्डरश्मेः करव्रातपातसन्तापतापिताः
gate bahutithekāle prācyaudīcyāṃ bhṛśārditāḥ | caṇḍaraśmeḥ karavrātapātasantāpatāpitāḥ
بہت دن گزرنے پر مشرق اور شمال کے لوگ سخت مبتلا ہوئے؛ تیز شعاعوں والے سورج کی کرنوں کی بارش جیسی تپش نے انہیں جھلسا دیا۔
Narrator (Vyāsa continues by context)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (implied narrative setting)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and sages at Naimiṣāraṇya (typical frame; not explicit here)
Scene: A parched landscape in the eastern and northern quarters: people shielding faces, cracked earth, shimmering heat-waves; the Sun depicted with fierce rays pouring down like spears.
When cosmic order is disturbed, all beings suffer—dharma is not abstract; it sustains the world’s welfare.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse describes regional suffering within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa storyline.
None in this verse.