Shloka 32

Pulastya’s Tīrtha Enumeration: Sarasvatī, Naimiṣa, Gayā, and Associated Phalaśruti

Chapter 82

Devanagari script

सायं प्रातः स्मरेद्‌ यस्तु पुष्कराणि कृताञज्जलि:

Transliteration

sāyaṃ prātaḥ smared yas tu puṣkarāṇi kṛtāñjaliḥ

Translation

Ghūlastya nói: “Ai chắp tay cung kính mà tưởng niệm các Puṣkara linh thiêng vào buổi chiều, rồi lại vào lúc rạng đông…”

Word by Word

सायम्in the evening

प्रातःin the morning

स्मरेत्should remember

यःwho

तुindeed / but

पुष्कराणिPushkaras (the sacred lakes/places named Puṣkara)

कृताञ्जलिःwith hands joined (in reverence)

Speaker

घुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Ghūlastya

Puṣkara (tīrtha/holy place)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Regular, reverent remembrance of a sacred tīrtha—performed at auspicious times like dawn and dusk—functions as a dharmic discipline, cultivating devotion and accruing spiritual merit even without elaborate ritual.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker (Ghūlastya) begins a statement describing the benefit for a person who, with folded hands, remembers the Puṣkara holy places at evening and morning—introducing a teaching on tīrtha-related practice and its फल (result), which continues in subsequent verses.