प्रतिमा-गृह जलाशयादि प्रतिष्ठाफलम्The fruit of installing images, houses, reservoirs and the rest
Verse 25
इष्टकागृहदाने तु तस्माच्छतगुणं फलम् । ततोऽयुतगुणं पुण्यं शिलागेहप्रदानतः ॥ २५ ॥
iṣṭakāgṛhadānē tu tasmācchataguṇaṁ phalam | tatō’yutaguṇaṁ puṇyaṁ śilāgēhapradānataḥ || 25 ||
Translation
For the gift of a brick house the fruit is a hundred times that; and from the gift of a stone house the merit is ten thousand times more again.
Word by word
- iṣṭakā
- of brick
- gṛha
- a house
- dānē
- in the gift
- tu
- indeed
- tasmāt
- than that
- śata
- a hundred
- guṇaṁ
- times
- phalam
- the fruit
- tataḥ
- (tataḥ) than that
- ayuta
- ten thousand
- puṇyaṁ
- merit
- śilā
- of stone
- gēha
- house
- pradānataḥ
- (pradānataḥ) from the gift
Meaning
As with images, the merit follows the permanence of the material: brick a hundred times thatch, stone ten thousand times brick.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 23.