Shloka 80
Tīrtha-yātrā: Phalaśruti and Sacred Geography from Lohitya to Prayāga
Pulastya’s Instruction
कलश्यां वार्युपस्पृश्य श्रद्दधानो जितेन्द्रिय: । अग्निष्टोमस्य यज्ञस्य फल प्राप्रोति मानव:
kalaśyāṃ vāry upaspṛśya śraddadhāno jitendriyaḥ | agniṣṭomasya yajñasya phalaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ ||
Ghūlastya nói: “Người nào với lòng tin và sự tự chế, chạm vào nước được giữ trong bình nghi lễ (kalaśa), thì đạt công đức thuộc về tế lễ Agniṣṭoma.”
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
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).
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.