हयस्य यानि चाङ्गानि तानि सर्वाणि ब्राह्मणा:। अग्नौ प्रास्यन्ति विधिवत्समन्त्राष्षोडशर्त्विज:।।1.14.36।।
Meaning
All the horse's limbs were offered into the fire with sacred formulas by the sixteen officiating priests, exactly as prescribed.
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| hayasya yāni ca aṅgāni | हयस्य यानि च अङ्गानि | and whatever the limbs of the horse | Nominative plural |
| tāni sarvāṇi brāhmaṇāḥ | तानि सर्वाणि ब्राह्मणाः | all of those, the Brahmins | Accusative plural |
| agnau prāsyanti vidhivat | अग्नौ प्रास्यन्ति विधिवत् | cast duly into the fire | Verb (present) |
| sa-mantrāḥ ṣoḍaśa ṛtvijaḥ | स-मन्त्राः षोडश ऋत्विजः | together with mantras, the sixteen officiating priests | Nominative plural |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source notes that the horse-ritual proper is prescribed to run only three days under the kalpa sutras, but Dasharatha had it performed together with numerous additional connected rituals (jyotishtoma, aayushi, abhijit, vishwajit, aptoryaama and others) out of sheer eagerness to secure progeny -- the extended scale described here is Dasharatha's own addition, not the ritual's baseline requirement.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.14.38 · Bāla Kāṇḍa