Shloka 26
नारद–असित (देवल) संवादः — भूतप्रभवाप्यय, इन्द्रिय-गुण-विवेक, क्षेत्रज्ञ-तत्त्व
ऋचो यजूंषि सामानि यजमानश्न षोडश । अग्निज्ञेयो गृहपति: स सप्तदश उच्यते
ṛco yajūṃṣi sāmāni yajamānaś ca ṣoḍaśa | agnijñeyo gṛhapatiḥ sa saptadaśa ucyate ||
Kapila menerangkan: himpunan Ṛg, Yajus dan Sāman, bersama yajamāna (si pelaksana korban), membentuk enam belas unsur yajña. Dan api rumah tangga—api gārhapatya, yang dikenali sebagai gṛhapati—diajarkan sebagai unsur ketujuh belas. Demikianlah tujuh belas anggota itu disebutkan.
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
That sacrifice (yajña) is an integrated system: Vedic utterance (Ṛg, Yajus, Sāman) must be joined with the responsible agent (yajamāna), and sustained by the household sacred fire (gārhapatya/gṛhapati). Dharma in ritual depends on completeness—right elements, right roles, and continuity of the sacred fire.
Kapila is instructing about the constituents (aṅgas) of yajña, enumerating them as sixteen when counting the three Vedic streams of mantra plus the sacrificer, and adding the gārhapatya (household) fire as the seventeenth, emphasizing its foundational status in Vedic practice.