Sri Vishnu Sahasranama: Vashatkaarah

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Vashatkaarah:

 

ln the ritualistic portion of the Vedas we find many mantras ending with

‘vashat’ and they are used in pouring devoted and dedicated oblations (the act

of offering something, such as worship or thanks, to a deity). Thus the term

Vashatkaara means: He who is invoked, and for propitiating (appease, make peace

with by offering sacrifice) whom, the oblations ( the act of offering something,

such as worship or thanks, to a deity) are poured in Vedic ritualism, using

mantras ending with vashat.

 

Also Vashatkaara can mean yajna in its association and thus the term in its

suggestion can signify ‘He who is of the form of the Yajna’. In the Upanishads

also we find this meaning endorsed when the Upanishad mantra says: “Yajno vai

Vishnuh” - Yajna itself is Vishnu.