Shloka 12
शल्मलि–पवनसंवादः
The Dialogue of Śalmali and Pavana
ततस्तेनाग्निना दग्धो लुब्धको नष्टकल्मष: । जगाम परमां सिद्धिं ततो भरतसत्तम,भरतश्रेष्ठ) तदनन्तर उस आगमें जल जानेसे बहेलियेके सारे पाप नष्ट हो गये और उसने परम सिद्धि प्राप्त कर ली
tatastena
gnin01 dagdho lubdhako na9b9a-kalma 63a 25 | jag01ma param01 43 siddhi 43 tato bharata-sattama ||
Bhishma nói: Rồi bị ngọn lửa ấy thiêu đốt, người thợ săn được gột sạch mọi vết nhơ tội lỗi. Sau đó, hỡi bậc tối thắng trong dòng Bharata, hắn đạt đến sự thành tựu tâm linh tối thượng.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the moral logic of purification: even a wrongdoer (the hunter) can have sins exhausted and be cleansed when karmic consequences and expiatory forces fully mature, leading to a transformed end-state described as 'highest siddhi'.
Bhishma concludes an episode by stating that the hunter was burned in a fire; through that burning his sins were destroyed, and afterward he attained the supreme spiritual accomplishment, as Bhishma addresses Yudhishthira ('best of the Bharatas').