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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.46

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 46

वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed

Verse 46

ये मे कुले लुप्तपिण्डाः पुत्रदारविवर्जिताः । अग्निदग्धाश्च ये केऽपि व्यालव्याघ्रहताश्च ये ॥ ४६ ॥

yē mē kulē luptapiṇḍāḥ putradāravivarjitāḥ | agnidagdhāśca yē kē’pi vyālavyāghrahatāśca yē || 46 ||

Translation

"Those of my family whose piṇḍas have lapsed, who have no son or wife, those burned in fire, those slain by snakes or tigers,

Word by word

yē
those who
mē
my
kulē
in the family
lupta
lapsed
piṇḍāḥ
(piṇḍāḥ) whose piṇḍas
putra
son
dāra
and wife
vivarjitāḥ
(vivarjitāḥ) without
agni
in fire
dagdhāḥ
(dagdhāḥ) burned
ca
and
kē
any
api
whoever
vyāla
by snakes
vyāghra
or tigers
hatāḥ
(hatāḥ) slain

Meaning

One of the most humane passages of the śrāddha: an offering to all the forgotten dead of the family, those whose line has ended and who have no one to feed them, and those who died by violence.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

"Dattvā" and the rest. O you whom the gods praise, with the two mantras from "ye me kule" to "te yāntu tṛptim akṣayām", he gives the thirteenth piṇḍa, made after the twelve piṇḍas made before, to those without piṇḍas, on the darbha spread on the square maṇḍala in the south-west corner; then, washing his hands and sipping water, reciting the Sāvitrī, the Gāyatrī, twelve times, and reciting the mantra "devatābhyaḥ" three times, he should make the maṇḍalas.