Shloka 19
Gopradāna-phalasaṃprāpti: Nāciketa’s Vision of Vaivasvata’s Realms (गोप्रदानफलसम्प्राप्तिः — नाचिकेतोपाख्यानम्)
वह इस जगत्में सम्पूर्ण कामनाओं तथा अक्षय कीर्तिको प्राप्त करता है और सम्पूर्ण पापोंसे मुक्त हो जाता है। मृत्युके पश्चात् वह अक्षय सुखका भागी होता है ।।
bhīṣma uvāca | sa iha jagati samastakāmanāḥ prāpnoti akṣayāṃ ca kīrtiṃ labhate sarvapāpaiś ca vimucyate | mṛtyoḥ paścāt sa akṣayasukhabhāg bhavati || toyado manuja-vyāghra svargaṃ gatvā mahā-dyute | akṣayān samavāpnoti lokān ity abravīn manuḥ ||
毗湿摩说道：“在此世间，施水之人得以成就一切正当愿望，并赢得不朽的名声；亦从一切罪业中解脱。死后，他分受无尽之乐。噢，人中之虎，噢，大放光辉者——摩奴曾宣说：施水之人将往天界，并在彼处获得对不坏诸世界的主宰权。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that offering water as a charitable gift is a powerful dharmic act: it brings fulfillment of desires, lasting fame, freedom from sin, and—after death—access to imperishable happiness and heavenly realms.
Bhishma, instructing on dharma, cites the authority of Manu to praise the merit of water-donation (toya-dāna), assuring the listener that such charity leads to svarga and to enduring, ‘imperishable’ worlds.