Shloka 26

नागैः सह ब्राह्मणस्य अतिथिधर्म-व्रतसंवादः | The Brahmin’s Vow and the Nāgas’ Hospitality Appeal

Devanagari script

जजाप विधिवन्‍न्मन्त्रान्‌ नारायणगतान्‌ बहून्‌ । दिव्यं वर्षसमहसत्रं हि नरनारायणाश्रमे

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | jajāpa vidhivan mantrān nārāyaṇagatān bahūn | divyaṁ varṣa-sahasraṁ hi nara-nārāyaṇāśrame |

Translation

毗舍波耶那说道：他依仪轨如法诵持了许多归向那罗延的真言；并且确实在那罗与那罗延的精舍中住了整整一千个天界之年。

Word by Word

• जजाप: chanted/recited (repeatedly)
• Type: Verb
• Root: जप्
• Form: लिट् (परस्मैपदम्), perfect, 3, singular

• विधिवत्: according to rule/ritually
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विधिवत्

• मन्त्रान्: mantras
• मन्त्रान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मन्त्र
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• नारायणगतान्: directed to/concerned with Nārāyaṇa
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नारायणगत
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• बहून्: many
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहु
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• दिव्यम्: divine
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिव्य
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• वर्षसहस्रम्: a thousand years
• वर्षसहस्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्षसहस्र
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• नरनारायणाश्रमे: in the hermitage of Nara-Nārāyaṇa
• नरनारायणाश्रमे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरनारायणाश्रम
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Nārāyaṇa
• Nara-Nārāyaṇa
• Nara-Nārāyaṇa Āśrama

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights disciplined devotion: spiritual power and steadiness arise from performing prescribed practice (vidhi) with sustained focus on the divine (Nārāyaṇa), emphasizing endurance, restraint, and fidelity to dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator states that the person in question performs extensive japa of Nārāyaṇa-related mantras in proper ritual fashion and remains for a thousand divine years at the hermitage of the sages Nara and Nārāyaṇa, indicating prolonged ascetic residence and practice.