Shloka 89

Pitṛ-śrāddha-haviḥ-phala-nirdeśa

Offerings for Ancestors and Their Stated Results

Devanagari script

आज ममुर्मुनय: सर्वे देवाश्चाग्निपुरोगमा: । यज्ञांगानि च सर्वाणि वषट्कारश्न मूर्तिमान्‌

Transliteration

adya mamur munayaḥ sarve devāś cāgnipurogamāḥ | yajñāṅgāni ca sarvāṇi vaṣaṭkāraś ca mūrtimān ||

Translation

婆悉吒说道：“今日，诸牟尼皆来至我处，诸天亦由阿耆尼为首而至。祭祀的一切支分也都到齐，甚至‘婆刹特’（Vaṣaṭ）之呼声也以有形之身显现。”

Word by Word

• अद्य: today/now
• अद्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य

• ममुः: rejoiced/approved (sense uncertain due to textual ambiguity)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मा (माङ्) / मृ (मरणे) (uncertain)
• Form: Perfect (लिट्) (probable), 3, Plural, Parasmaipada (probable)

• मुनयः: sages
• मुनयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुनि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सर्वे: all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• देवाः: gods
• देवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अग्नि-पुरोगमाः: having Agni in the forefront
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अग्नि-पुरोगम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• यज्ञ-अङ्गानि: limbs/parts of the sacrifice
• यज्ञ-अङ्गानि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: यज्ञ-अङ्ग
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• सर्वाणि: all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• वषट्कारः: the vaṣaṭ-call (ritual exclamation)
• वषट्कारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वषट्कार
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• मूर्तिमान्: embodied, having form
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मूर्तिमत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• munayaḥ (sages)
• devāḥ (gods)
• Agni
• yajña (sacrifice)
• yajñāṅga (limbs of sacrifice)
• vaṣaṭkāra (Vaṣaṭ-call)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes the sanctity and completeness of righteous ritual action: when a sacrifice is properly grounded in dharma, even its formal elements—like the Vaṣaṭ utterance and the yajña’s components—are treated as living presences, highlighting the moral weight of precision, reverence, and ordered conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha describes an extraordinary gathering: sages and gods led by Agni arrive, and the very constituents of the sacrifice along with the Vaṣaṭ-call are poetically personified as present, signaling a moment of heightened ritual potency and divine participation.