Shloka 14
राजपूजाविधानम् / Royal Reception Protocols during Āśvamedha Preparations
एवमत्र महाराज दक्षिणां त्रिगुणां कुरु । त्रित्वं ब्रजतु ते राजन् ब्राह्मणा ह्वात्र कारणम्
evaṃ atra mahārāja dakṣiṇāṃ triguṇāṃ kuru | tritvaṃ brajatu te rājan brāhmaṇā hy atra kāraṇam ||
Sinabi ni Vaiśampāyana: “Kaya nga, O dakilang hari, magbigay ka rito ng tatluhang dakṣiṇā (handog na bayad sa paghahain). O hari, nawa’y ang iisang paghahain mong ito ay umabot sa antas ng tatlong paghahain, sapagkat ang mga Brāhmaṇa ang tunay na pangunahing sanhi—ang mapagpasiyang tagapagganap—sa ritong ito.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that honoring the officiating Brāhmaṇas with generous dakṣiṇā is not merely transactional but ethically and ritually central: the efficacy and merit of a sacrifice depend on proper respect, support, and recompense to those who preserve and enact the Vedic rite.
Vaiśampāyana advises the king, within the context of a sacrificial performance, to give a threefold dakṣiṇā. He frames this generosity as elevating the single rite to the merit of three sacrifices, because the Brāhmaṇas are presented as the key agents enabling the yajña.