वृद्धिश्राद्धप्रयोगःHow the vṛddhi-śrāddha is performed
Verse 50
पूर्वमन्त्रेण संप्रोक्ष्य कुशांस्तेष्वास्तरेत् कृती । अभ्युक्ष्य वायुना दर्भान् पितृदर्भक्रमात् शिवे । ऊर्द्ध्वे मूले च मध्ये च त्रींस्त्रीन् पिण्डान्निवेदयेत् ॥ ५० ॥
pūrvamantrēṇa saṁprōkṣya kuśāṁstēṣvāstarēt kṛtī | abhyukṣya vāyunā darbhān pitṛdarbhakramāt śivē | ūrddhvē mūlē ca madhyē ca trīṁstrīn piṇḍānnivēdayēt || 50 ||
Translation
Sprinkling them with the former mantra, the skilled one spreads kuśa on them; sprinkling the darbha with vāyu, in the order of the fathers' darbha, O Śivā, he offers three piṇḍas each, at the root, in the middle and at the tip.
Word by word
- pūrva
- former
- mantrēṇa
- with the mantra (vaṁ)
- saṁprōkṣya
- having sprinkled
- kuśāṁs
- (kuśān) kuśa
- tēṣu
- on them
- āstarēt
- should spread
- kṛtī
- the skilled one
- abhyukṣya
- having sprinkled
- vāyunā
- with vāyu (yaṁ)
- darbhān
- the darbha
- pitṛ
- of the fathers
- darbha
- darbha
- kramāt
- (kramāt) in the order
- śivē
- O Śivā
- ūrddhvē
- at the tip
- mūlē
- at the root
- ca
- and
- madhyē
- in the middle
- trīṁs
- (trīn) three
- trīn
- each three
- piṇḍān
- piṇḍas
- nivēdayēt
- should offer
Meaning
The former mantra is vaṁ, the seed of water; vāyu is yaṁ, the seed of air. On each strip of kuśa three piṇḍas are laid: the father's at the root, the grandfather's in the middle, the great-grandfather's at the tip; and so for each line.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pūrvamantreṇa" and the rest. O Śivā, then, sprinkling the maṇḍalas with the mantra told before, in the form of the seed vaṁ, the skilled performer of the śrāddha should spread kuśa on those maṇḍalas. Then, sprinkling the darbha with vāyu, the seed yaṁ, in the order of the fathers' darbha, at the root, in the middle and at the top of the darbha, he should offer three piṇḍas each, in order, to the father and the rest, the mother and the rest, the maternal grandfather and the rest, and the maternal grandmother and the rest.