स्पर्शेषु षोडशं चैकविंशं गृह्णंति नो धनम् ६.
In those places, the sixteenth and twenty-first touch, and they do not take wealth.
वरं बुभुक्षया वासो मा चौरकरगा वयम् अर्जुन उवाच ६.
It is better to dwell in hunger than to fall into the hands of thieves.
किं धनं च हरंत्येते येभ्यो बिभ्यति ब्राह्मणाः नारद उवाच ६.
What wealth do these take, from whom the Brahmins are afraid?
तस्यापहारभीतास्ते मामूचुरिति ब्राह्मणाः ६.
Fearing theft from them, the Brahmins spoke to me thus.
जाग्रतां तु मनुष्याणां चौराः कुर्वंति किं खलाः ६.
What indeed do wicked thieves do to people who are awake?
तेन किं नाम संसाध्यं भूमिस्तं ग्रसते नरम्॥ ६.
What, then, can truly be accomplished by that? The earth swallows that man.
वयं चौरभयाद्भीतास्ते हरंति धनं महत् ६.
We, frightened by the fear of thieves, have had great wealth taken away.
खलाश्चौरा गताः क्वापि ततो नत्वाऽऽगता वयम् ६.
The wicked thieves have gone somewhere, and so, bowing, we have returned.
प्रतिग्रहश्च वै घोरः षष्ठांऽशफलदस्तथा ६.
And indeed, accepting gifts is terrible, yielding only a sixth part as fruit.
मूढबुद्ध्या हि को नाम महीसागरसंगमम् ६.
Who, with a deluded mind, would ever go to the place where the earth meets the ocean?
कलापादिषु ग्रामेषु को वसेत विचक्षणः ६.
What wise person would dwell in villages among the Kalapas and others?
भयं च चौरजं सर्वं किं करिष्यति तत्र न ६.
And what will all the fear of thieves do there?
साहसं च विना भूतिर्न कथंचन प्राप्यते ६.
Without risk, prosperity is never attained in any way.
षड्विंशतिसहस्राणि ब्राह्मणा मे परिग्रहे ६.
Twenty-six thousand Brahmins are in my household.
तैः सार्धमागमिष्यामि ममेदं मतमुत्तमम् ६.
Together with them, I shall come; this is my highest resolve.
निवृत्तः सहसा पार्थ खेचरोऽतिमुदान्वितः ६.
Having suddenly withdrawn, Partha, he moved through the sky, filled with great joy.
केदारं समुपायातो युक्तस्तैर्द्विजसत्तमैः ६.
He reached Kedāra, accompanied by those excellent twice-born ones.
अतिक्रांतुं नान्यथा च तथा स्कंदप्रसादतः॥ ६.
And, by the grace of Skanda, it was not possible to cross otherwise.
क्व कलापं च तद्ग्रामं कथं शक्यं बिलेन च ६.
Where is Kalāpa, and that village—how could it be reached by the tunnel?
केदाराद्धिमसंयुक्तं योजनानां शतं स्मृतम् ६.
From Kedāra to Himasaṃyukta, it is said to be a hundred yojanas.
तदंते योजनशतं वासुकार्णव मुच्यते ६.
At the end of that, for another hundred yojanas, the Vāsukārṇava is mentioned.
बिलेन च यथा शक्यं गंतुं तत्र श्रृणुष्व तत् ६.
Now listen to how it is possible to go there through the tunnel.
दक्षिणायां दिशि ततो निष्पापं मन्यते यदा ६.
Then, when one is considered pure, in the southern direction from there—
ततो गुहात्पश्चिमतो बिलमस्ति बृहत्तरम् ६.
To the west of the cave, there is a very large tunnel.
तत्र मारकतं लिंगमस्ति सूर्यसमप्रभम् ६.
There is an emerald liṅga there, shining like the sun.
नमस्कृत्य च तल्लिंगं गृहीत्वा मृत्तिकां च ताम् ६.
After bowing to that liṅga and taking that clay—
कोलं वा कूपतो ग्राह्यं भूतायां निशि तज्जलम् ६.
Or, water from a well should be taken at night, for the sake of Bhūtā.
उद्वर्तनं च देहस्य कदाचित्षष्टिमे पदे ६.
One should anoint the body with it, sometimes at the sixty-sixth step.
तन्मध्येन ततो याति गात्रोद्वर्त्तप्रभावतः ६.
Then, by the power of that anointment, one proceeds through the middle of it.
बिलमध्ये च संपश्यन्सिद्धान्भास्करसन्निभान् ६.
In the middle of the tunnel, one sees siddhas, resplendent like the sun.