akshyayyam

Updated: June 2, 2025

The sense is that such a Brahmana, if his expectation be not gratified, is competent to consume the person that has falsely raised that expectation. Akshyayyam is fire, because it is fire that eats the food offered to the Pitris and makes it inexhaustible.

- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4: Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18