Shloka 65

Devanagari script

चतुर्दशे तु दिवसे यः पूर्णे प्राशते हवि: । सदा द्वादशमासांस्तु महामेधफलं लभेत्‌

Transliteration

caturdaśe tu divase yaḥ pūrṇe prāśate haviḥ | sadā dvādaśamāsāṁs tu mahāmedhaphalaṁ labhet ||

Translation

ഭീഷ്മൻ പറഞ്ഞു—പൂർണ്ണ ചതുര്ദശി ദിനത്തിൽ ഹവി (ഹവിഷ്യം) പ്രാശിക്കുന്നവൻ, പന്ത്രണ്ടു മാസങ്ങളോളം നിരന്തരം ‘മഹാമേധ’ എന്നു പറയപ്പെടുന്ന മഹായാഗഫലം പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു.

Word by Word

चतुर्दशेon the fourteenth (day)

तुbut/indeed

दिवसेon the day

यःwho

पूर्णेwhen (it is) complete/fulfilled

प्राशतेeats/partakes

हविःthe oblation (havis)

सदाalways

द्वादशtwelve

मासान्months

तुindeed/and

महामेधफलम्the fruit of the great sacrifice (mahāmedha)

लभेत्would obtain

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

haviḥ (sacrificial oblation)

mahāmedha (great sacrifice)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That careful observance of prescribed sacred timing and ritual discipline—here, partaking of the oblation on the fully arrived fourteenth day—yields enduring merit, comparable to the fruit of a major sacrifice, for an extended period (twelve months).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instruction on dharma and religious observances, he describes a specific rule of ritual practice: consuming the sacrificial oblation at the proper calendrical moment (the completed fourteenth day) grants the practitioner the merit associated with a great yajña for the following year.