यावन्त्यहानि जीवेत्व्रते निरशने कृते । क्रतुभिस्तानि तुल्यानि समग्रवदक्षिणैः ॥ २,३६.
For as many days as he lives while observing the fast, those days are equal to sacrifices performed with full gifts.
तीर्थे गृहे वा संन्यासं नीत्वा चेन्म्रियते यदि । प्रत्यहं लभते सोऽपि पूर्वोक्तं द्विगुणं फलम् ॥ २,३६.
If, having taken up renunciation at a sacred place or at home, he dies, he obtains daily the previously mentioned fruit, doubled.
महारोगोपपत्तौ च गृहीतेऽनशने कृते । पुनर्न जायते रोगो देववद्धि विराजते ॥ २,३६.
When a great disease arises and fasting is undertaken, the disease does not return and the person shines like a god.
य आतुरः सन् सन्न्यासं गृह्णाति यदि मानवः । पुनर्न जायते भूमौ संसारे दुः खसागरे ॥ २,३६.
If a person, while ill, takes up renunciation, he is not born again on earth in the ocean of suffering called samsara.
अहन्यहनि दातव्यं ब्राह्मणानाञ्च भोजनम् । तिलपात्रं यथाशक्ति दीपदानं सुरार्चनम् ॥ २,३६.
Every day, food should be given to Brahmins, and as one is able, offerings of sesame in a vessel, gifts of lamps, and worship of the gods should be performed.
एवं वृत्तस्य दह्यन्ते पापान्युच्चावचानि च । मृतो मुक्तिमवाप्नोति यथा सर्वे महर्षयः ॥ २,३६.
For one who lives in this way, all sins, whether great or small, are burned away; when he dies, he attains liberation, just as all the great sages did.
तस्मादनशनं नॄणां वैकुण्ठपददायकम् । तस्मात्स्वस्थे चोत्तरे वा साधयेन्मोक्षलक्षणम् ॥ २,३६.
Therefore, fasting grants people the abode of Vaikuntha; thus, whether healthy or at the end of life, one should strive for the mark of liberation.
पुत्त्रद्रव्यादि सन्त्यज्य तीर्थं व्रजति यो नरः । ब्रह्माद्या देवतास्तस्य भवेयुस्तुष्टिपुष्टिदाः ॥ २,३६.
Whoever abandons children, wealth, and so on, and goes to a sacred place, for him the gods beginning with Brahma grant satisfaction and nourishment.
यस्तीर्थसंमुखो भूत्वा व्रते ह्यनशने कृते । चेन्म्रियेतान्तरालेऽपि ऋषीणां मण्डले वसेत् ॥ २,३६.
If, having set out for a sacred place and undertaking a vow of fasting, one should die on the way, he dwells in the circle of the sages.
व्रतं निरशन कृत्वा स्वगृहेऽपि मृतो यदि । स्वकुलानि परित्यज्य एकाकी विचरेद्दिवि ॥ २,३६.
If, after performing the vow of fasting, one dies even at home, he leaves behind his family and wanders alone in heaven.
अन्नञ्चैव तथा तोयं परित्यज्य नरो यदि । पीतमत्पादतोयश्च न पुनर्जायते क्षितौ ॥ २,३६.
If a man gives up both food and water, and drinks only water from my feet, he is not born again on earth.
कृत्त्यासीनन्तत्तीर्थगतं रक्षन्ति वनदेवताः । यमदूता विशेषेण न याम्यास्तस्य पार्श्वगाः ॥ २,३६.
Forest deities especially protect one who, with a shaven head, has gone to a sacred place; the messengers of Yama do not approach him.
तीर्थसेवी नरो यस्तु सर्वकिल्बिषवर्जितः । तत्र म्रियते दह्येत तत्तीर्थफलभाग्भवेत् ॥ २,३६.
A man who serves a sacred place, free from all sins, and dies there, is burned and becomes a recipient of the fruit of that sacred place.
सेवितेऽपि सदा तथि ह्यन्यत्र म्रियते यदि । शुभे देशे कुले धीमान् स भवेद्वेदविद्द्विजः ॥ २,३६.
Even if one always serves a sacred place but dies elsewhere, he is born as a wise Brahmin, learned in the Vedas, in a good land and family.
कृत्वा निरशनं तार्क्ष्य पुनर्जीवति मानवः । ब्राह्मणान् स समाहूय सर्वस्वं यत्परित्यजेत् ॥ २,३६.
Having performed fasting, O Tarkshya, if a man lives again, he should summon Brahmins and give away all his possessions.
चान्द्रायणं चरेत्कृत्स्नमनुज्ञातश्च तैर्द्विजैः । अनृतं न वदेत्पश्चाद्धर्ममेव समाचरेत् ॥ २,३६.
He should perform the full Chandrayana vow, having been permitted by those Brahmins, and afterwards should not speak falsehood but act only according to dharma.
तीर्थे गत्वा च यः कोऽपि पुनरायाति वै गृहम् । अनुज्ञातः स वै विप्रैः प्रायश्चित्तमथाचरेत् ॥ २,३६.
Whoever, having gone to a sacred place, returns home, should, with the permission of the Brahmins, perform expiation.
दत्त्वा वा स्वर्णदानानि गोमहीगजवाजिनः । तीर्थं यदि लभेद्यस्तु मृत्युकाले स भाग्यवान् ॥ २,३६.
If, at the time of death, someone gives gifts of gold, cows, land, elephants, or horses, and attains a sacred place, he is fortunate.
गृहात्प्रचलितस्तीर्थं मरणे समुपस्थिते । पदेपदे तु गोदानं यदि हिंसा न जायते ॥ २,३६.
If, when death is near, one sets out from home for a sacred place, and at every step gives a cow, then no harm arises.
गृहे तु यत्कृतं पापं तीर्थस्नानेन शुध्यति । कुरुते तत्र पापञ्चेद्वज्रलेपसमं हि तत् ॥ २,३६.
The sin committed at home is purified by bathing in a sacred place; but if one commits sin there, it is as if covered with adamant.
क्लिश्येत्स नात्र सन्देहो यावच्चन्द्रार्कतारकम् । तत्र दत्तानि दानानि जायन्ते चाक्षयाणि वै ॥ २,३६.
There is no doubt that one will suffer as long as the moon, sun, and stars endure; but the gifts given there become truly imperishable.
आतुरे सति दातव्यं निर्धनैरपि मानवैः । गावस्तिला हिरण्यञ्च सप्तधान्यं विशेषतः ॥ २,३६.
When someone is ill, even those who are poor should give—especially cows, sesame seeds, gold, and the seven kinds of grain.
दानवन्तं नरं दृष्ट्वा हृष्टाः सर्वे दिवौकसः । ऋषिभिः सह धर्मण चित्रगुप्तेन सर्वदा ॥ २,३६.
When the gods see a generous person, they rejoice along with the sages, Dharma, and Citragupta—always.
आत्मायत्तं धनं यावत्तावद्विप्रे समर्पयेत् । पराधीनं मृते सर्वं कृपया कः प्रदास्यति ॥ २,३६.
As long as wealth is under one's own control, it should be offered to a Brahmin; once it is no longer one's own, who will give it out of compassion after death?
पित्रुद्देशेन यः पुत्त्रैर्धनं विप्रकरेऽर्पितम् । आत्मानं सधनं तेन चक्रे पुत्रप्रपौत्रकैः ॥ २,३६.
Whatever wealth is offered by sons to a Brahmin for the sake of their father, with that, he is established—along with his wealth—by sons and grandsons.
पितुः शतगुणं दत्तं सहस्रं मातुरुच्यते । भगिन्या शतसाहस्रं सोदर्ये दत्तमक्षयम् ॥ २,३६.
A gift made for the father is said to be a hundredfold, for the mother a thousandfold, and for a sister of the same womb, a hundred thousandfold and imperishable.
यदि लोभान्न यच्छन्ति प्रमादान्मोहतोऽपि वा । मृताः शोचन्ति ते सर्वे कदर्याः पापिनस्त्विति ॥ २,३६.
If, out of greed, carelessness, or delusion, they do not give, then all those stingy and sinful ones grieve after death.
अतिक्लेशेन लब्धस्य प्रकृत्या चञ्चलस्य च । गतिरेकैव वित्तस्य दानमन्या विपत्तयः ॥ २,३६.
Wealth, obtained with great effort and by its nature unstable, has only one true course: giving; all other paths lead to ruin.
मृत्युः शरीगोप्तारं वसुरक्षं वसुन्धरा । दुश्चारिणीव हसति स्वपतिं पुत्रवत्सलम् ॥ २,३६.
Death laughs at the protector of the body, at the hoarder of wealth, and at the earth itself, just as a wicked wife laughs at her loving husband.
उदासे धार्मिकः सौम्यः प्राप्यापि विपुलं धनम् । तृणवन्मन्यते तार्क्ष्य आत्मानं वित्तमप्यथ ॥ २,३६.
O Tārkṣya, a righteous and gentle person, even after obtaining great wealth, regards both himself and his riches as mere straw.