सूत उवाच विदुरस्तीर्थयात्रायां मैत्रेयादात्मनो गतिम् । ज्ञात्वागाद्धास्तिनपुरं तयावाप्तविवित्सित: ॥ १ ॥
suta uvaca viduras tirtha-yatrayam maitreyad atmano gatim jnatvagad dhastinapuram tayavapta-vivitsitah
- sutah uvaca
- Sri Suta Gosvami said
- vidurah
- Vidura
- tirtha-yatrayam
- while traveling to different places of pilgrimage
- maitreyat
- from the great sage Maitreya
- atmanah
- of the self
- gatim
- destination
- jnatva
- by knowing it
- agat
- went back
- hastinapuram
- the city of Hastinapura
- taya
- by that knowledge
- avapta
- sufficiently a gainer
- vivitsitah
- being well versed in everything knowable.
Sri Suta Gosvami said: While traveling on a pilgrimage, Vidura received knowledge of the destination of the self from the great sage Maitreya and then returned to Hastinapura. He became as well versed in the subject as he desired.