Shloka 60
मखो हि विष्णुर्भगवान् सनातनो वदन्ति तच्चाग्न्यनिलेन्दुभानव: । अतोडनसूयु: शृणुयात् पठेच्च यः स सर्वलोकानुचर: सुखी भवेत्
makho hi viṣṇur bhagavān sanātano vadanti tac cāgny-anilendu-bhānavaḥ | ato 'ḍana-sūyuḥ śṛṇuyāt paṭhec ca yaḥ sa sarva-lokānucaraḥ sukhī bhavet ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “The eternal Blessed Lord Viṣṇu is indeed the sacrifice (makha); so declare even Agni, Vāyu, the Moon, and the Sun. Therefore, whoever—free from fault-finding and envy—recites or listens to this account of the war-sacrifice becomes a happy wanderer through all worlds.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse identifies Viṣṇu with the very essence of yajña (makha) and teaches that approaching the war narrative without envy or fault-finding—by hearing or reciting it—yields auspicious spiritual fruit: happiness and free movement through all worlds.
Vaiśampāyana concludes a section with a phalaśruti (statement of benefits), framing the battlefield account as a ‘war-sacrifice’ and asserting, with cosmic witnesses (Agni, Vāyu, Moon, Sun), that Viṣṇu is the sacrificial principle behind it.