Shloka 89
Pitṛ-śrāddha-haviḥ-phala-nirdeśa
Offerings for Ancestors and Their Stated Results
आज ममुर्मुनय: सर्वे देवाश्चाग्निपुरोगमा: । यज्ञांगानि च सर्वाणि वषट्कारश्न मूर्तिमान्
adya mamur munayaḥ sarve devāś cāgnipurogamāḥ | yajñāṅgāni ca sarvāṇi vaṣaṭkāraś ca mūrtimān ||
Vasiṣṭha said: “Today all the sages have come to me, and the gods led by Agni as well. All the limbs of the sacrifice have also arrived, and even the Vaṣaṭ-call has appeared in embodied form.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the sanctity and completeness of righteous ritual action: when a sacrifice is properly grounded in dharma, even its formal elements—like the Vaṣaṭ utterance and the yajña’s components—are treated as living presences, highlighting the moral weight of precision, reverence, and ordered conduct.
Vasiṣṭha describes an extraordinary gathering: sages and gods led by Agni arrive, and the very constituents of the sacrifice along with the Vaṣaṭ-call are poetically personified as present, signaling a moment of heightened ritual potency and divine participation.