Shloka 36
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
तथापराह्नः पूर्वाह्नात् पितॄणामतिरिच्यते ।
सम्पूज्य स्वागतेनैतानभ्युपेतान् गृहे द्विजान् ॥
tathāparāhnaḥ pūrvāhnāt pitṝṇāmatiricyate | saṃpūjya svāgatenaitānabhyupetān gṛhe dvijān ||
তদ্রূপ পূর্বাহ্নের তুলনায় অপরাহ্ন পিতৃগণের অধিক প্রিয়। স্বাগতবাক্যে যথাবিধি সম্মান করে, আগত ব্রাহ্মণদের গৃহে গ্রহণ করা উচিত।
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FAQs
Time-discipline and courteous reception are both treated as offerings. The performer’s attentiveness is a form of devotion toward the unseen pitṛs, mediated through visible guests.
Ācāra/dharma material; it prescribes pitṛ-rite timing (kāla) and etiquette.
Afternoon (declining sun) is symbolically aligned with the ancestral realm and ‘setting’ energies; the rite harmonizes with that subtle directionality.