Verse 2.1.40

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.1.40:

गृहादिकं परित्यज्य भ्रमंस् तीर्थेषु भिक्षया ।
गतो निर्वाहयन् देहं गङ्गा-सागर-सङ्गमम् ॥ ४० ॥

gṛhādikaṃ parityajya bhramaṃs tīrtheṣu bhikṣayā |
gato nirvāhayan dehaṃ gaṅgā-sāgara-saṅgamam || 40 ||

gṛha–home; ādikam–and so on; parityajya–renouncing; bhraman–wandering; tīrtheṣu–in different holy places; bhikṣayā–by begging; gataḥ–went; nirvāhayan–maintaining; deham–his body; gaṅgā-sāgara–of the Gaṅgā and the ocean; saṅgamam–to the confluence.

Some days later, the brāhmaṇa renounced his home life. Begging just enough to maintain his bodily existence, he wandered to the different holy places of pilgrimage and finally reached Gaṅgā-sāgara, the confluence of the river Gaṅgā and the ocean.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Parīkṣit says, “Shortly thereafter, the brāhmaṇa renounced his family, home, and so on, and set out on pilgrimage to the holy places, or tīrthas, maintaining his body simply by begging.” The term bhramaṇa, meaning ‘wandering,’ indicates apratigraha, ‘a lack of desire for acquisition.’ “While traveling to holy places, the brāhmaṇa did not accept anything except the bare necessities.” This reveals that now he was free from sin and had developed renunciation. “In this way, traveling through many holy places, he arrived at the confluence, or saṅgama, named Gaṅgā-sāgara, where the Gaṅgā meets the ocean.”