Shloka 22
Adhyaya 29 — Alarka’s Inquiry and Madalasa’s Teaching on Householder Dharma (Gārhasthya), Vaiśvadeva, and Atithi Hospitality
स्थानेषु निक्षिपेत् प्राज्ञस्तास्ता उद्दिश्य देवताः ।
एवं गृहबलिं कृत्वा गृहे गृहपतिः शुचिः ॥
sthāneṣu nikṣipet prājñas tāstā uddiśya devatāḥ / evaṃ gṛhabaliṃ kṛtvā gṛhe gṛhapatiḥ śuciḥ
প্ৰাজ্ঞ ব্যক্তিয়ে সেই-সেই দেৱতাক নিৰ্দেশ কৰি তেওঁলোকৰ নিজ নিজ স্থানত অংশ স্থাপন কৰিব। এইদৰে গৃহবলি সম্পন্ন কৰিলে গৃহস্বামী ঘৰৰ ভিতৰত শুচি থাকে।
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FAQs
Purity is framed as a consequence of conscientious duty: the householder becomes ‘śuci’ not by exclusion, but by correct distribution—giving each sphere its due.
Ācāra/Dharma layer; Purāṇas often interweave such prescriptive passages alongside genealogical and cosmological accounts.
‘Uddiśya’ (intentional designation) implies that offering is fundamentally about directed consciousness; places in the home become a mapped sacred cosmos when paired with correct invocation.