Shloka 10

अग्निशाप-प्रसंगः

Agni’s Curse and the Restoration of Ritual Order

Devanagari script

देवता: पितरश्वैव भुज्जते मयि यद्‌ हुतम्‌ । देवतानां पितृणां च मुखमेतदहं स्मृतम्‌,“मुझमें जो आहुति दी जाती है, उसे देवता और पितर दोनों भक्षण करते हैं। इसीलिये मैं देवताओं और पितरोंका मुख माना जाता हूँ

Transliteration

devatāḥ pitaraś caiva bhuñjate mayi yad hutam | devatānāṃ pitṝṇāṃ ca mukham etad ahaṃ smṛtam ||

Translation

“Whatever oblation is offered into me is partaken of by both the gods and the ancestral Fathers. Therefore I am remembered as the very ‘mouth’—the receiving channel—of the gods and the Pitṛs, through which offerings reach them in due order.”

Word by Word

देवताःthe deities

पितरःthe ancestors (pitṛs)

चand

एवindeed/also

भुञ्जतेeat/partake (of)

मयिin me

यत्which/that (offering)

हुतम्offered (as oblation)

देवतानाम्of the deities

पितृणाम्of the ancestors

चand

मुखम्mouth/means of consumption

एतत्this

अहम्I

स्मृतम्is considered/remembered

Speaker

शौनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

द

देवता (Devatāḥ)

प

पितर (Pitaraḥ/Pitṛs)

आ

आहुति/हुत (oblation)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes