राजोवाच समीचीनं वचो ब्रह्मन् सर्वज्ञस्य तवानघ । तमो विशीर्यते मह्यं हरे: कथयत: कथाम् ॥ ५ ॥
rajovaca samicinam vaco brahman sarva-jnasya tavanagha tamo visiryate mahyam hareh kathayatah katham
- raja uvaca
- the King said
- samicinam
- perfectly right
- vacah
- speeches
- brahman
- O learned brahmana
- sarva-jnasya
- one who knows all
- tava
- your
- anagha
- without any contamination
- tamah
- the darkness of ignorance
- visiryate
- gradually disappearing
- mahyam
- unto me
- hareh
- of the Lord
- kathayatah
- as you are speaking
- katham
- topics.
Maharaja Pariksit said: O learned brahmana, you know everything because you are without material contamination. Therefore whatever you have spoken to me appears perfectly right. Your speeches are gradually destroying the darkness of my ignorance, for you are narrating the topics of the Lord.