प्रतिमा-गृह जलाशयादि प्रतिष्ठाफलम्The fruit of installing images, houses, reservoirs and the rest
Verse 40
मणिमुक्ताप्रवालादिरत्नान्यात्मप्रियञ्च यत् । यो दद्याद्देवमुद्दिश्य श्रद्धाभक्तिसमन्वितः । स तल्लोकं समासाद्य तत्तत्कोटिगुणं लभेत् ॥ ४० ॥
maṇimuktāpravālādiratnānyātmapriyañca yat | yō dadyāddēvamuddiśya śraddhābhaktisamanvitaḥ | sa tallōkaṁ samāsādya tattatkōṭiguṇaṁ labhēt || 40 ||
Translation
…gems, pearls, coral and other precious stones, and whatever is dear to oneself: whoever gives these in the name of a god, with faith and devotion, reaches that god's world and gains each of them a crore of times over.
Word by word
- maṇi
- gems
- muktā
- pearls
- pravāla
- coral
- ādi
- and other
- ratnāni
- (ratnāni) precious stones
- ātma
- to oneself
- priyaṁ
- dear
- ca
- and
- yat
- whatever
- yaḥ
- (yaḥ) whoever
- dadyāt
- gives
- dēvam
- a god
- uddiśya
- in the name of
- śraddhā
- with faith
- bhakti
- and devotion
- samanvitaḥ
- (samanvitaḥ) endowed
- saḥ
- (saḥ) he
- tal
- (tat) that god's
- lōkaṁ
- world
- samāsādya
- reaching
- tattat
- each of them
- kōṭi
- a crore of
- guṇaṁ
- times
- labhēt
- gains
Meaning
Whatever the giver himself holds dear may be offered. The reward is the gift returned ten million times in the god's world.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Samāsādya: having reached.