Shloka 49

Devanagari script

हव्यकव्येषु यज्ञेषु पितृकार्येषु चैव ह । सार्वकामिकमक्षय्यं पितृंस्तस्योपतिष्ठते,पुरुषसिंह! यदि इसका कीर्तन किया जाय तो यह समस्त पापोंसे छुटकारा दिलानेवाला है। जो एकाग्रचित्त हो सदा यज्ञ और श्राद्धमें हव्य और कव्य अर्पण करते समय ब्राह्मणोंको यह प्रसंग सुनायेगा, उसका दिया हुआ (हव्य और कव्य) समस्त कामनाओंको पूर्ण करनेवाला और अक्षय होकर पितरोंको प्राप्त होगा

Transliteration

havyakavyeṣu yajñeṣu pitṛkāryeṣu caiva ha | sārvakāmikam akṣayyaṁ pitṝṁs tasyopatiṣṭhate puruṣasiṁha ||

Translation

హే పురుషసింహా! హవ్య-కవ్యములు సమర్పించు యజ్ఞములలోను, పితృకార్యములన్నిటిలోను ఈ (కీర్తనం) సర్వకామసిద్ధిదాయకమై అక్షయఫలప్రదమగును; అటువంటి భక్తితో చేసిన అర్పణం అక్షయ లాభముగా పితృదేవతలకు చేరును.

Word by Word

हव्यकव्येषुin (the offerings) havya and kavya

यज्ञेषुin sacrifices

पितृकार्येषुin rites for the ancestors

चand

एवindeed/just

हindeed (emphatic particle)

सार्वकामिकम्fulfilling all desires

अक्षय्यम्imperishable

पितॄन्the ancestors

तस्यof him/of that (person)

उपतिष्ठतेattends upon / reaches / is present to

पुरुषसिंहO lion among men

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Pitṛs (ancestors)

havya

kavya

yajña

pitṛkārya

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That offerings made in yajña and śrāddha, when accompanied by devoted remembrance/recitation and focused mind, become akṣayya (undiminishing) and effectively reach the Pitṛs, yielding broad, wish-fulfilling merit.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma is instructing the listener (addressed as ‘puruṣasiṁha’) about the religious efficacy of performing ancestral rites and sacrificial offerings with proper recitation: such acts are said to deliver inexhaustible benefit to the ancestors and confer purifying merit on the performer.