Shloka 68

Dhaumya’s Enumeration of Eastern Tīrthas

Prācī-diś Tīrtha-kathana

Devanagari script

अभिगम्य महादेवमभिवाद्य च भारत | प्रदक्षिणमुपावृत्य गाणपत्यमवाप्रुयात्‌

Transliteration

abhigamya mahādevam abhivādya ca bhārata | pradakṣiṇam upāvṛtya gāṇapatyam avāpnuyāt |

Translation

Hỡi Bhārata, đến gần Mahādeva (Śiva) mà đảnh lễ cung kính, rồi đi nhiễu quanh và kính cẩn lui ra, thì sẽ được ân phúc và sự gia hộ của Gaṇapati (Gaṇeśa).

Word by Word

अभिगम्यhaving approached

महादेवम्Mahādeva (Śiva)

अभिवाद्यhaving saluted

चand

भारतO Bhārata

प्रदक्षिणम्circumambulation (to the right), as pradakṣiṇā

उपावृत्यhaving gone around / having circumambulated

गाणपत्यम्the Gaṇapatya (rite/observance related to Gaṇapati)

अवाप्नुयात्should obtain / would attain

Speaker

पुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Pulastya

Mahādeva (Śiva)

Bhārata

Gaṇapati (Gaṇeśa)

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?

The verse teaches that devotion should be expressed with correct conduct—approaching the deity, offering respectful salutation, performing pradakṣiṇā, and withdrawing properly. Such disciplined reverence is presented as dharmic behavior that leads to auspicious spiritual results, here described as attaining Gaṇapati’s favor.

What is happening in the narrative?

Pulastya instructs the listener (addressed as ‘Bhārata’) on a prescribed mode of worship: one should go to Mahādeva (Śiva), bow to him, circumambulate, and then depart respectfully; by doing so, one gains the benefit associated with Gaṇapati.