Shloka 30
कुमाराभिषेकप्रश्नः — Inquiry into Kumāra (Skanda) Investiture at Sarasvatī
अरुणामानयामास स्वां तनूं पुरुषर्षभ । तस्यां ते राक्षसा: स्नात्वा तनूस्त्यक्त्वा दिवंगता:
aruṇām ānayāmāsa svāṃ tanūṃ puruṣarṣabha | tasyāṃ te rākṣasāḥ snātvā tanūs tyaktvā divaṃgatāḥ ||
毗舍波耶那说：“噫，人中之雄！他使自身之躯呈现赤红之色。诸罗刹在那赤红的形相/精质中沐浴之后，便舍弃其身，升往天界。”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the purificatory and transformative power of contact with a sanctifying medium: even beings marked by fierce or harmful tendencies (Rākṣasas) can attain a higher destiny when they undergo purification and relinquish bodily attachment, suggesting that spiritual elevation is possible through the right conditions and acts.
Vaiśampāyana narrates that a figure caused his body to take on a ruddy (aruṇa) form; the Rākṣasas bathed in that and, as a result, abandoned their bodies and attained heaven—an episode describing a miraculous purification leading to celestial ascent.