Sanskrit
अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति । सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati sarve 'py ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ
Translation
Others regular in food, pour as sacrifice their life-breaths in life-breaths. All these are knowers of sacrifice, and by sacrifice have destroyed their sins.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The list that began in verse 25 closes not with one more item but with a verdict on the whole set: whichever discipline was just named — deity-worship, sense-control, breath-retention, or the rest — everyone practicing it is a yajña-vid, one who knows what sacrifice actually is, and each has burned away fault, kalmaṣa, through it. The shift from listing to summarizing is the tell: the catalogue’s real purpose was never to rank these practices against each other but to establish that “sacrifice” is a far wider category than fire-altar ritual, unified by the intention behind the act rather than the act’s outward form.