Shloka 80
Tīrtha-yātrā: Phalaśruti and Sacred Geography from Lohitya to Prayāga
Pulastya’s Instruction
कलश्यां वार्युपस्पृश्य श्रद्दधानो जितेन्द्रिय: । अग्निष्टोमस्य यज्ञस्य फल प्राप्रोति मानव:
kalaśyāṃ vāry upaspṛśya śraddadhāno jitendriyaḥ | agniṣṭomasya yajñasya phalaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ ||
Ghūlastya dijo: «Quien, con fe y dominio de sí, toca el agua guardada en un vaso ritual (kalaśa), obtiene el mérito propio del sacrificio Agniṣṭoma.»
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Faith (śraddhā) and self-control (jitendriyatā) are presented as the decisive inner conditions that make a simple purificatory act—touching water in a ritual vessel—equivalent in merit to a major Vedic sacrifice (Agniṣṭoma).
Ghūlastya is instructing or affirming a rule of religious practice: a disciplined, faithful person gains sacrificial fruit through a prescribed act of ritual contact with consecrated water, emphasizing inner disposition alongside external rite.