य इदं सुमहत्पुण्यं श्रद्धयावहित: पठेत् । श्रावयेच्छृणुयाद्वापि स पृथो: पदवीमियात् ॥ ३१ ॥
ya idam sumahat punyam sraddhayavahitah pathet sravayec chrnuyad vapi sa prthoh padavim iyat
- yah
- anyone
- idam
- this
- su-mahat
- very great
- punyam
- pious
- sraddhaya
- with great faith
- avahitah
- with great attention
- pathet
- reads
- sravayet
- explains
- srnuyat
- hears
- va
- or
- api
- certainly
- sah
- that person
- prthoh
- of King Prthu
- padavim
- situation
- iyat
- attains.
Any person who describes the great characteristics of King Prthu with faith and determination—whether he reads or hears of them himself or helps others to hear of them—is certain to attain the very plane which Maharaja Prthu attained. In other words, such a person also returns home to the Vaikuntha planes, back to Godhead.