Shloka 11

Adhyāya 90: Babhruvāhana’s Reception and the Commencement of Yudhiṣṭhira’s Aśvamedha

Devanagari script

अविलुप्यागमं कृत्स्नं विविधैर्यज्ञियै: कृतम्‌ । यथागमं यथान्यायं कर्तव्यं च तथा कृतम्‌

Transliteration

avai lupyāgamaṁ kṛtsnaṁ vividhair yajñiyaiḥ kṛtam | yathāgamaṁ yathānyāyaṁ kartavyaṁ ca tathā kṛtam ||

Translation

毗舍摩波耶那说道：“我等于一切处不违圣教之禁，备具种种祭品，已圆满完成此仪。依经典，依公正，凡应行之责，皆已如法奉行。”

Word by Word

• {'avai-lupya': 'without violating, without omitting or transgressing', 'āgama': 'scriptural tradition

• authoritative injunctions/ritual prescriptions', 'kṛtsnam': 'entirely, in full, completely', 'vividhaiḥ': 'by various, manifold', 'yajñiyaiḥ': 'fit for sacrifice

• sacrificial (materials/implements/offerings)', 'kṛtam': 'done, performed, accomplished', 'yathāgamaṁ': 'according to scripture

• as prescribed', 'yathānyāyam': 'according to justice/propriety

• in due legal-ethical order', 'kartavyam': 'what ought to be done

• duty', 'tathā': 'so, in that manner', 'ca': 'and'}

Speaker

वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana
• āgama (scriptural injunctions)
• yajña (sacrifice/rite)
• yajñiya-sāmagrī (sacrificial requisites)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes that religious action must be governed by both śāstric authority (āgama) and ethical-legal propriety (nyāya). A rite is considered truly complete not merely by external performance, but by faithful adherence to prescribed rules and by doing every required duty in a just and fitting manner.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśaṃpāyana reports that the sacrifice has been carried out to completion with all necessary sacrificial materials, and that the performers have not deviated from the scriptural procedure. He underscores that all obligatory acts connected with the rite were executed properly and justly.