Shloka 122

Pitṛ-śrāddha-haviḥ-phala-nirdeśa

Offerings for Ancestors and Their Stated Results

Devanagari script

वयं च भगवन्‌ सर्वे जगच्च सचराचरम्‌ | तवैव प्रसवा: सर्वे तस्मादग्निर्विभावसु:

Transliteration

vayaṃ ca bhagavan sarve jagac ca sacarācaram | tavaiva prasavāḥ sarve tasmād agnir vibhāvasuḥ ||

Translation

Vasiṣṭha sprach: „O gesegneter Herr, wir alle—ja das ganze Weltall mit allem Beweglichen und Unbeweglichen—sind allein aus Dir hervorgegangen. Darum ist auch Agni, das strahlende Feuer, Dein eigener Nachkomme.“

Word by Word

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Prathama, Bahuvachana

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• भगवन्: O Blessed Lord
• Type: Noun
• Root: भगवत्
• Form: Pum, Sambodhana, Eka

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Bahuvachana

• जगत्: the world
• जगत्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जगत्
• Form: Napum, Prathama, Eka

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• सचराचरम्: with the moving and the unmoving (all beings)
• सचराचरम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स-चर-अचर
• Form: Napum, Prathama, Eka

• तव: of you / your
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Shashthi, Eka

• एव: indeed, alone
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• प्रसवाः: offspring, productions
• प्रसवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रसव
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Bahuvachana

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Bahuvachana

• तस्मात्: therefore; from that (cause)
• तस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तद्

• अग्निः: Agni, fire
• अग्निः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अग्नि
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Eka

• विभावसुः: Vibhāvasu (a name of Agni)
• विभावसुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: विभावसु
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Eka

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• Bhagavān (the Lord)
• Jagat (the universe)
• Agni
• Vibhāvasu (epithet of Agni)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All beings and the entire cosmos—animate and inanimate—are presented as emanating from the Supreme Lord; even Agni (Fire), a major Vedic deity, is affirmed as deriving from that one source, emphasizing divine sovereignty and the unity of creation.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha addresses a revered Lord and, in a tone of theological affirmation, declares that the whole world is the Lord’s progeny; he then specifically cites Agni (Vibhāvasu) as an example, reinforcing the Lord’s status as the ultimate origin.