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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.12

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 12

वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed

Verse 12

कृत्वा नित्योदितं कर्म मानवः सुसमाहितः । गङ्गां यज्ञेश्वरं विष्णुं वास्त्वीशं भूपतिं यजेत् ॥ १२ ॥

kṛtvā nityōditaṁ karma mānavaḥ susamāhitaḥ | gaṅgāṁ yajñēśvaraṁ viṣṇuṁ vāstvīśaṁ bhūpatiṁ yajēt || 12 ||

Translation

Having done his prescribed daily rite, the man, fully collected, should worship Gaṅgā, Yajñeśvara Viṣṇu, the lord of the house-site and the lord of the land.

Word by word

kṛtvā
having done
nitya
daily
uditaṁ
prescribed
karma
rite
mānavaḥ
the man
susamāhitaḥ
fully collected
gaṅgāṁ
Gaṅgā
yajñēśvaraṁ
the lord of the sacrifice
viṣṇuṁ
Viṣṇu
vāstu
of the house-site
īśaṁ
the lord
bhūpatiṁ
the lord of the land
yajēt
should worship

Meaning

Before the ancestors, five are honoured: Gaṅgā, the purifying river; Viṣṇu as lord of the sacrifice; the vāstvīśa, the deity of the house-site; and the bhūpati, whom the ṭīkā explains as the owner of the land on which the rite is done. Each with the name-mantra "oṁ ... namaḥ".

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he gives the procedure of the vṛddhi-śrāddha with "kṛtvā" and the rest. Having done the daily rite, the man, facing east, very collected, very attentive, should worship in order, with scent, flowers and the rest, with the name-mantra beginning with praṇava and ending with namaḥ, Gaṅgā, Yajñeśvara, Viṣṇu, the lord of the house-site (vāstvīśa) and the lord of the earth (bhūpati), the man who owns the land.