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precious metals should be given as Dakshina. The names should then be taken of all the deities as also of Nara and Narayana.
Then, adorning the persons of some foremost of Brahmanas with scents and garlands, they should be gratified with diverse
kinds of gifts of enjoyable and very superior or costly articles. By doing this, one attains to the merits of the Atiratra sacrifice.
Indeed, at each successive Parva, he acquires the merits that attach to the performance of a sacrifice. The reciter, O chief of the
Bharatas, should be possessed of learning and endued with a good voice and a clear utterance respecting both letters and words.
Even such a man should, O chief of the Bharatas, recite the Bharata. After entertaining a number of foremost Brahmanas,
presents should be made unto them according to the ordinances. The reciter also, O chief of the Bharatas, should be decked
with ornaments and fed sumptuously. The reciter being gratified, the house-holder attains to an excellent and auspicious
contentment. If the Brahmanas are gratified, all the deities are gratified. After this, O chief of the Bharatas, Brahmanas should
be duly entertained with diverse kinds of enjoyable articles and superior things.
"I have thus indicated the ordinances, O foremost of men, (about the manner of reciting these scriptures) in answer to thy
enquiries. Thou shouldst observe them with faith. In listening to a recitation of the Bharata and at each Parana, O best of kings,
one that desires to attain to the highest good should listen with the greatest care and attention. One should listen to the Bharata
every day. One should proclaim the merits of the Bharata every day. One in whose house the Bharata occurs, has in his hands
all those scriptures which are known by the name of Jaya. The Bharata is cleansing and sacred. In the Bharata are diverse
topics. The Bharata is worshipped by the very gods. The Bharata is the highest goal. The Bharata, O chief of the Bharatas, is
the foremost of all scriptures. One attains to Emancipation through the Bharata. This that I tell thee is certain truth. One that
proclaims the merits of this history called the Mahabharata, of the Earth, of the cow, of Sarasvati (the goddess of speech), of
Brahmanas, and of Keshava, has never to languish.
"In the Vedas, in the Ramayana, and in the sacred Bharata, O chief of Bharatas race, Hari is sung in the beginning, the middle,
and at the end. That in which occur excellent statements relating to Vishnu, and the eternal Srutis, should be listened to by men
desirous of attaining to the highest goal. This treatise is sanctifying. This is the highest indicator as regards duties; this is
endued with every merit. One desirous of prosperity should listen to it. Sins committed by means of the body, by means of
words, and by means of the mind, are all destroyed (through listening to the Bharata) as Darkness at sunrise. One devoted to
Vishnu acquires (through this) that merit which is acquired by listening to the eighteen Puranas. There is no doubt in this. Men
and women (by listening to this) would certainly attain to the status of Vishnu. Women desirous of having children should
certainly listen to this which proclaims the fame of Vishnu. One desirous of attaining to the fruits that attach to a recitation of
the Bharata should, according to ones power, give unto the reciter Dakshina, as also an honorarium in gold. One desirous of
ones own good should give unto the reciter a Kapila cow with horns cased in gold and accompanied by her calf, covered with a
cloth. Ornaments, O chief of Bharatas race, for the arms, as also those for the ears, should be given. Besides these, other kinds
of wealth should be presented. Unto the reciter, O king of men, gift of land should be made. No gift like that of land could ever
be or will be. The man that listens (to the Bharata) or that recites it to other people, becomes cleansed of all his sins and attains
at last to the status of Vishnu. Such a man rescues his ancestors to the eleventh degree, as also himself with his wives and sons,
O chief of Bharatas race. After concluding a recitation of the Bharata, one should, O king, perform a Homa with all its ten
parts.
"I have thus, O chief of men, told everything in thy presence. He that listens with devotion to this Bharata from the beginning
becomes cleansed of every sin even if he be guilty of Brahmanicide or the violation of his preceptors bed, or even if he be a
drinker of alcohol or a robber of other peoples wares, or even if he be born in the Chandala order. Destroying all his sins like
the maker of day destroying darkness, such a man, without doubt, sports in felicity in the region of Vishnu like Vishnu
himself."
The End of the Svargarohanika-parva
The Eighteen parvas of the Mahabharata are thus complete
December 3, 2023
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