यस्याग्निहोत्रमदर्शमपौर्णमास-
मचातुर्मास्यमनाग्रयणमतिथिवर्जितं च ।
अहुतमवैश्वदेवमविधिना हुत-
मासप्तमांस्तस्य लोकान् हिनस्ति ॥ ३॥
yasyāgnihotramadarśamapaurṇamāsa-
macāturmāsyamanāgrayaṇamatithivarjitaṃ ca .
ahutamavaiśvadevamavidhinā huta-
māsaptamāṃstasya lokān hinasti .. 3..
If a man’s Agnihotra sacrifice is not accompanied by the Darsa and the Paurnamasa sacrifice, by the Four Months’ sacrifice and the Autumnal sacrifice; if it is unattended by hospitality to guests or if the oblations are not offered at the right time; or if the sacrifice is unaccompanied by the Vaisvadeva ceremony or is improperly performed-then it destroys his seven worlds.
Commentary:
Here we have a tremendous instruction from the Mimamsa Shastra—Karmakanda gone to its extreme, we may say. It is not enough if we just perform one havan and keep quiet, as an agnihotra, for instance. The mantra here says that if a person does not, at the same time, together with the performance of agnihotra, also perform the special sacrifices called darsha and paurnamasa during the new moon and the full moon, and does not also perform the special offerings required to be done during the four months of the rainy season, and does not also perform the special havan intended to be done during the spring season, and if the havan is performed without guests being fed at the same time during the yajna, and if the flames do not come forth properly and are only smouldering and smoking, and if the feeding of animals, etc., is also not taken care of at the same time, and if the mantras in the yajna are not chanted with the proper intonation and recitation, what will happen? Seven generations of theirs will be destroyed: ā-saptamāṁs tasya lokān hinasti. It is a very terrible curse. It also means that for them, the seven worlds will be destroyed. Bhuloka, Bhuvarloka, Svarloka, Mahaloka, Janaloka, Tapaloka and Satyaloka will expel them and not allow them to enter. Therefore, imagine how difficult it is to perform a sacrifice, a yajna. If we make a little mistake—a little wrong intonation, a little fumbling, it will break the yajna. Karmakanda is very difficult. If we do it, wonderful; but if we do not do it properly, to hell we go.