Shloka 114

मानसतीर्थ-शौचप्रशंसा | Praise of the ‘Mental Tīrtha’ and the Marks of Purity

Devanagari script

सदा द्वादशमासांस्तु जुह्मानो जातवेदसम्‌ | फल प्राप्रोति विपुलं देवलोके च पूज्यते

Transliteration

sadā dvādaśa-māsāṁs tu juhmāno jātavedasam | phalaṁ prāpnoti vipulaṁ devaloke ca pūjyate ||

Translation

Bhishma nói: Ai trong trọn mười hai tháng không ngừng dâng lễ vật vào lửa thiêng—Jataveda (Agni)—và với sự khắc kỷ nghiêm mật chỉ ăn một lần vào mỗi ngày thứ hai mươi bảy, thì sẽ đạt công đức lớn lao và được tôn kính trong cõi chư thiên. Lời dạy ca ngợi việc thờ lửa theo Veda kết hợp với khổ hạnh, nêu tự chế như con đường thăng tiến và được chư thiên kính trọng.

Word by Word

• सदा: always
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा

• द्वादश: twelve
• द्वादश: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वादश
• Form: Gender: masculine; Case: accusative; Number: plural

• मासान्: months
• मासान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मास
• Form: Gender: masculine; Case: accusative; Number: plural

• तु: indeed/but
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• जुह्वानः: offering (into fire), performing oblations
• जुह्वानः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: हु (धातु) → जुह्वान (वर्तमान कृदन्त)
• Form: Tense/Aspect: present participle (parasmaipada); Gender: masculine; Case: nominative; Number: singular

• जातवेदसम्: Jātavedas (Agni)
• जातवेदसम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: जातवेदस्
• Form: Gender: masculine; Case: accusative; Number: singular

• फलम्: fruit/result
• फलम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: फल
• Form: Gender: neuter; Case: accusative; Number: singular

• प्राप्नोति: attains/obtains
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + आप्
• Form: Tense: present; Person: 3rd; Number: singular

• विपुलम्: abundant/great
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विपुल
• Form: Gender: neuter; Case: accusative; Number: singular

• देवलोके: in the world of the gods (heaven)
• देवलोके: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवलोक
• Form: Gender: masculine; Case: locative; Number: singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• पूज्यते: is honored/worshipped
• Type: Verb
• Root: पूज्
• Form: Voice: passive; Tense: present; Person: 3rd; Number: singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Agni (Jātavedas)
• Devaloka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Sustained Vedic worship (offering into Agni) combined with rigorous self-discipline and fasting is presented as a powerful dharmic practice that yields great spiritual merit and leads to honor in devaloka.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhishma’s instruction on dharma and religious observances, he describes the reward for a practitioner who maintains agnihotra-like offerings for a year while eating only once every twenty-seventh day, emphasizing the exalted result of such austerity.