ऋणत्रयमोचनम्Release from the three debts
Verse 234
पिता पितामहश्चैव प्रपितामह एव च । माता पितामही देवि तथैव प्रपितामही । मातामहादयोऽप्येवं मातामह्यादयोऽपि च ॥ २३४ ॥
pitā pitāmahaścaiva prapitāmaha ēva ca | mātā pitāmahī dēvi tathaiva prapitāmahī | mātāmahādayō’pyēvaṁ mātāmahyādayō’pi ca || 234 ||
Translation
Father, grandfather and great-grandfather; mother, grandmother, Devī, and great-grandmother likewise; and in the same way the maternal grandfather and the rest, and the maternal grandmother and the rest.
Word by word
- pitā
- father
- pitāmahaś
- (pitāmahaḥ) grandfather
- ca
- and
- ēva
- also
- prapitāmaha
- (prapitāmahaḥ) great-grandfather
- mātā
- mother
- pitāmahī
- grandmother
- dēvi
- O Devī
- tathā
- likewise
- prapitāmahī
- great-grandmother
- mātāmaha
- the maternal grandfather
- ādayō
- (ādayaḥ) and the rest
- api
- also
- ēvaṁ
- in the same way
- mātāmahī
- the maternal grandmother
Meaning
Three generations on both sides, men and women. The commentary explains "and the rest": the maternal great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, and the maternal great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
In the verse and a half beginning "pitā" he names the ancestors to be worshipped to be freed from the debt. The order of the words is: in this way, like the father and the rest, the maternal grandfather and the rest are also to be worshipped. By "ādi" (and the rest) are meant the maternal great-grandfather and the maternal great-great-grandfather, and the maternal great-grandmother and the maternal great-great-grandmother.