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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 10.89

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Ullāsa 10 · Verse 89

शय्यादिदानम्The gift of a bed and the rest

Verse 89

गां भूमिं वसनं यानं पात्रं धातुविनिर्मितम् । भोज्यं बहुविधं दद्यात् प्रेतस्वर्गाय सत्सुतः ॥ ८९ ॥

gāṁ bhūmiṁ vasanaṁ yānaṁ pātraṁ dhātuvinirmitam | bhōjyaṁ bahuvidhaṁ dadyāt prētasvargāya satsutaḥ || 89 ||

Translation

A good son should give a cow, land, cloth, a carriage, metal vessels and many kinds of food, for the heaven of the dead.

Word by word

gāṁ
a cow
bhūmiṁ
land
vasanaṁ
cloth
yānaṁ
a carriage
pātraṁ
vessels
dhātu
of metal
vinirmitam
(vinirmitam) made
bhōjyaṁ
food
bahuvidhaṁ
of many kinds
dadyāt
should give
prēta
of the dead
svargāya
for the heaven
satsutaḥ
(satsutaḥ) a good son

Meaning

Gifts made in the name of the dead, so that he may reach heaven.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

"Gām" and the rest. With the sentence "oṁ adya amuka-gotrasya pretasya pitur amuka-devaśarmaṇaḥ svargārtham amuka-gotrāya amuka-devaśarmaṇe brāhmaṇāya gām imām ahaṁ sampradade" ("for the heaven of my father so-and-so, now a preta, I give this cow to the brāhmaṇa so-and-so"), the good son should give a cow for the heaven of the preta. With sentences made in just this way he should give land and the rest too for the heaven of the preta.