Sanskrit · Devanagari
यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम्। नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्यः कुरुसत्तम ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
yajñaśiṣṭāmṛtabhujo yānti brahma sanātanam nāyaṃ loko.astyayajñasya kuto.anyaḥ kurusattama
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Those who eat the nectar-like leavings of the sacrifice repair to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for those who perform no sacrifice, whence (then) the other, O best of the Kauravas!
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।4.31।। यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजः यज्ञानां शिष्टं यज्ञशिष्टं यज्ञशिष्टं च तत् अमृतं च यज्ञशिष्टामृतं तत् भुञ्जते इति यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजः। यथोक्तान् यज्ञान् कृत्वा तच्छिष्टेन कालेन यथाविधिचोदितम् अन्नम् अमृताख्यं भुञ्जते इति यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजः यान्ति गच्छन्ति ब्रह्म सनातनं चिरन्तनं मुमुक्षवश्चेत् कालातिक्रमापेक्षया इति सामर्थ्यात् गम्यते। न अयं लोकः सर्वप्राणिसाधारणोऽपि अस्ति यथोक्तानां यज्ञानां एकोऽपि यज्ञः यस्य नास्ति सः अयज्ञः तस्य। कुतः अन्यो विशिष्टसाधनसाध्यः कुरुसत्तम।।
6d5a3877f7ac…Rāmānuja
4.31 He 'who offers no sacrifices,' i.e., he who does not devote himself to obligatory and occasional actions, preceded by the performance of the 'great sacrifices' etc., will not be able to achieve human ends which are associated with the material world and are called by the names of virtue, wealth and worldly satisfactions. How then can the man's supreme end called release (Moksa), which is other than these, be attained? As Moksa, man's supreme end, has been mentioned, other objectives different from it, are named 'this world.' That is, indeed, the material world. [Perhaps the idea is that all types of sacrificers should perform the Panca-Maha-Yajnas, and take the remnants of it as their daily food. Only in this way can we give some meaning to 'ambrosial food' connected with the performance of all the various kinds of sacrifice mentioned in the above verses.]
c819069e3601…Swami Sivananda
4.31 यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजः eaters of the nectar -- the remnants of the sacrifice? यान्ति go? ब्रह्म Brahman? सनातनम् eternal? न not? अयम् this? लोकः world? अस्ति is? अयज्ञस्य of the nonsacrificer? कुतः how? अन्यः other? कुरुसत्तम O best of the Kurus.Commentary They go to the eternal Brahman in course of time after attaining the knowledge of the Self through purification of the mind by performing the above sacrifices. He who does not perform any of these is not fit even for this miserable world. How then can he hope to get a better world than this (Cf.III.13)
88545f2b92df…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.