Shloka 31

Tilā-Dāna, Dīpa-Dāna, and Nitya-Jalapradāna

Yama–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda) | तिलदान-दीपदान-नित्यजलप्रदान (यम-ब्राह्मण संवाद

Devanagari script

पूर्वाभाद्रपदायोगे राजमाषान्‌ प्रदाय तु । सर्वभक्षफलोपेत: स वै प्रेत्य सुखी भवेत्‌

Transliteration

Pūrvābhādrapadā-yoge rāja-māṣān pradāya tu | sarva-bhakṣa-phala-upetaḥ sa vai pretya sukhī bhavet ||

Translation

قال نارادا: «إذا اقترن منزل القمر بورفابهادربادا (Pūrvābhādrapadā) باقترانٍ ميمون (يوغا)، فمن تصدّق بـراجا-ماشا (rāja-māṣa، وهو نوعٌ فاضل من حبوب الماشا)، فإنه بعد الموت ينال حالًا سعيدًا، مُنْعَمًا بشتى الأطعمة والثمار.»

Word by Word

• पूर्वाभाद्रपदायोगे: in the conjunction (yoga) of Pūrvabhādrapadā (nakṣatra)
• पूर्वाभाद्रपदायोगे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूर्वाभाद्रपदा-योग
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• राजमाषान्: black gram (urad) beans
• राजमाषान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजमाष
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• प्रदाय: having given
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-दा
• Form: Absolutive (ktvā/lyap), Active

• तु: indeed/and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• सर्वभक्षफलोपेतः: endowed with all kinds of foods and fruits
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व-भक्ष-फल-उपेत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वै: certainly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै

• प्रेत्य: after departing (after death)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्र-इ
• Form: Gerund/absolutive used adverbially

• सुखी: happy
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुखिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भवेत्: would become
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• Pūrvābhādrapadā (nakṣatra)
• rāja-māṣa (pulse/bean offered in dāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that timely charity—specifically donating a valued food-grain/pulse during the Pūrvābhādrapadā nakṣatra—yields merit that ripens as posthumous well-being, symbolized by abundance of food and fruits.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada is instructing about the fruits of specific acts of dāna (gift-giving) performed under particular astral conditions, describing the beneficial result in the next world for the donor.