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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.27

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 27

वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed

Verse 27

पित्रादीनां त्रयाणां तु मात्रादीनां तथैव च । मातामहानां च मातामह्यादीनामपि प्रिये ॥ २७ ॥

pitrādīnāṁ trayāṇāṁ tu mātrādīnāṁ tathaiva ca | mātāmahānāṁ ca mātāmahyādīnāmapi priyē || 27 ||

Translation

names in the genitive the three fathers and the rest, and likewise the mothers, the maternal grandfathers and the maternal grandmothers, beloved,

Word by word

pitṛ
the fathers
ādīnāṁ
and the rest
trayāṇāṁ
of the three
tu
and
mātṛ
the mothers
tathaiva
likewise
ca
and
mātāmahānāṁ
of the maternal grandfathers
mātāmahī
the maternal grandmothers
ādīnām
(ādīnām) and the rest
api
also
priyē
O beloved

Meaning

Twelve ancestors are named: father, grandfather and great-grandfather; mother, grandmother and great-grandmother; and the same three generations on the mother's side, male and female.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 26.