Shloka 80

Tīrtha-yātrā: Phalaśruti and Sacred Geography from Lohitya to Prayāga

Pulastya’s Instruction

Devanagari script

कलश्यां वार्युपस्पृश्य श्रद्दधानो जितेन्द्रिय: । अग्निष्टोमस्य यज्ञस्य फल प्राप्रोति मानव:

Transliteration

kalaśyāṃ vāry upaspṛśya śraddadhāno jitendriyaḥ | agniṣṭomasya yajñasya phalaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ ||

Translation

Wika ni Ghūlastya: “Ang taong may pananampalataya at may pagpipigil sa sarili, kapag hinipo ang tubig na iniingatan sa sisidlang pangritwal (kalaśa), ay nakakamit ang kabutihang katumbas ng handog na Agniṣṭoma.”

Word by Word

कलश्याम्in a water-pot (pitcher)

वारिwater

उपस्पृश्यhaving touched (sipped/used for purification)

श्रद्दधानःfaithful, full of श्रद्धा

जितेन्द्रियःone who has conquered the senses

अग्निष्टोमस्यof the Agniṣṭoma (soma-sacrifice)

यज्ञस्यof the sacrifice

फलम्fruit, result

प्राप्नोतिattains, obtains

मानवःa man, human

Speaker

घुलस्त्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Ghūlastya

kalaśa (ritual water-pot)

Agniṣṭoma yajña

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Faith (śraddhā) and self-control (jitendriyatā) are presented as the decisive inner conditions that make a simple purificatory act—touching water in a ritual vessel—equivalent in merit to a major Vedic sacrifice (Agniṣṭoma).

What is happening in the narrative?

Ghūlastya is instructing or affirming a rule of religious practice: a disciplined, faithful person gains sacrificial fruit through a prescribed act of ritual contact with consecrated water, emphasizing inner disposition alongside external rite.