Shloka 51
मानसतीर्थ-शौचप्रशंसा | Praise of the ‘Mental Tīrtha’ and the Marks of Purity
अभिगच्छेन्महादेवं विमानस्थं महाबलम् । अश्वमेधसहस्रस्य फल प्राप्नोत्यनुत्तमम्
abhigacchenmahādevaṁ vimānasthaṁ mahābalam | aśvamedhasahasrasya phalaṁ prāpnotyanuttamam ||
Bhīṣma nói: “Ai đến yết kiến Mahādeva—đấng hùng lực vô song, ngự trên cỗ thiên xa—thì đạt công đức tối thượng, ngang với quả báo của một nghìn lễ tế Aśvamedha.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Approaching and honoring Mahādeva (Śiva) is presented as yielding supreme spiritual merit—so great that it is likened to the fruit of performing a thousand Aśvamedha sacrifices—thereby elevating devotion and divine encounter as a powerful means of dharmic attainment.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction (Anuśāsana context), he praises the extraordinary merit gained by going to Mahādeva, described as mighty and seated in a celestial vimāna, and he quantifies that merit by comparing it to the famed royal sacrificial rite, the Aśvamedha, multiplied a thousandfold.