Shloka 27

नारद–असित (देवल) संवादः — भूतप्रभवाप्यय, इन्द्रिय-गुण-विवेक, क्षेत्रज्ञ-तत्त्व

Devanagari script

अज्जन्येतानि यज्ञस्य यज्ञो मूलमिति श्रुति: । आज्येन पयसा दध्ना शकृता5$मिक्षया त्वचा,ये सब यज्ञके अंग हैं और यज्ञ इस जगतकी स्थितिका मूल कारण है; ऐसा श्रुतिका कथन है। घी, दूध, दही, छाछ, गोबर, चमड़ा, बाल, सींग और पैर--इन सबके द्वारा गौ यज्ञकर्मका सम्पादन करती है। इस प्रकार इनमेंसे प्रत्येक वस्तुका, जो-जो विहित है, संग्रह करना चाहिये

Transliteration

ajyajanyetāni yajñasya yajño mūlam iti śrutiḥ | ājyena payasā dadhnā śakṛtā'mikṣayā tvacā |

Translation

कपिल उवाच—गवां सम्भूतानि द्रव्याणि यज्ञकर्मणोऽङ्गानि; यज्ञश्च जगतः स्थितेर्मूलमिति श्रुतिः। आज्येन पयसा दध्ना शकृता आमिक्षया चर्मणा च गौरेव यज्ञकर्म साधयति। तस्मात् तेषां यद् यद् विधीयते तत्तत् शास्त्रविहितेन विधिना सम्यक् संगृह्य विनियोजयेत्।

Word by Word

अज्येनby ghee

एतानिthese

यज्ञस्यof the sacrifice

यज्ञःsacrifice

मूलम्root, foundation

इतिthus, 'so'

श्रुतिःthe Vedic revelation (Śruti)

आज्येनby ghee

पयसाby milk

दध्नाby curd

शकृताby dung

अमिक्षयाby buttermilk/curdled milk preparation (āmikṣā)

त्वचाby skin/hide

Speaker

कपिल उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kapila

yajña

śruti

ājya (ghee)

payas (milk)

dadhī (curd)

śakṛt (cow-dung)

āmikṣā

tvac (hide/skin)

gau (cow)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Kapila teaches that yajña, grounded in śruti, is a sustaining principle for worldly order, and that the cow’s products are legitimate, prescribed means for fulfilling ritual duty; one should procure and use them according to scriptural injunction.

What is happening in the narrative?

In a didactic discourse within Śānti Parva, Kapila is explaining the ritual and ethical significance of yajña, listing cow-derived substances (like ghee, milk, curd, dung, āmikṣā, hide) as components used in sacrificial practice and urging their proper, rule-based collection and use.