वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed
Verse 38
मातामहीत्रयं चापि पाद्यार्घ्याचमनादिभिः । धूपैर्दीपैश्च वासोभिः पूजयित्वा वरानने । पात्राणां पातनप्रश्नं कुर्याद्दैवक्रमात् शिवे ॥ ३८ ॥
mātāmahītrayaṁ cāpi pādyārghyācamanādibhiḥ | dhūpairdīpaiśca vāsōbhiḥ pūjayitvā varānanē | pātrāṇāṁ pātanapraśnaṁ kuryāddaivakramāt śivē || 38 ||
Translation
and the three maternal grandmothers, with water for the feet, arghya, water for sipping, incense, lamps and clothes; having worshipped them, lovely one, he should ask about setting down the vessels, in the order of the gods, O Śivā.
Word by word
- mātāmahī
- maternal grandmothers
- trayaṁ
- the three
- cāpi
- (ca api) and also
- pādya
- water for the feet
- arghya
- arghya
- ācamana
- water for sipping
- ādibhiḥ
- and the rest
- dhūpaiḥ
- (dhūpaiḥ) with incense
- dīpaiḥ
- (dīpaiḥ) lamps
- ca
- and
- vāsōbhiḥ
- clothes
- pūjayitvā
- having worshipped
- varānanē
- O lovely one
- pātrāṇāṁ
- of the vessels
- pātana
- the setting down
- praśnaṁ
- the question
- kuryāt
- should make
- daiva
- of the gods
- kramāt
- (kramāt) in the order
- śivē
- O Śivā
Meaning
He asks the (grass) brāhmaṇa "pātrāṇi pātayiṣye", "I shall set down the vessels", and receives the answer "oṁ pātaya", "set them down".
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 37.