Shloka 37
Adhyaya 32 — Rules for Parvana Śrāddha: Foods that Please the Ancestors and Items to Avoid
वसून् रुद्रांस्तथादित्यान् नक्षत्रग्रह तारकाः । प्रीणयन्ति मनुष्याणां पितरः श्राद्धतर्पिताः ॥
vasūn rudrāṃs tathādityān nakṣatra-graha-tārakāḥ / prīṇayanti manuṣyāṇāṃ pitaraḥ śrāddha-tarpitāḥ
শ্রাদ্ধ ও তর্পণে যখন মানুষের পিতৃগণ সন্তুষ্ট হন, তখন তারা বসু, রুদ্র, আদিত্যদের এবং নক্ষত্র, গ্রহ ও তারামণ্ডলকেও আনন্দিত করেন।
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FAQs
Personal rites are portrayed as socially and cosmically significant: honoring ancestors supports the wider divine order, implying that private dharma participates in public/cosmic harmony.
Not pancalakṣaṇa; it is a dharma-ritual passage with cosmological coloring.
The verse maps a subtle network: Pitṛs as intermediaries between human conduct and cosmic forces (devas, grahas). Symbolically, gratitude stabilizes one’s ‘inner cosmos,’ reflected as harmony in the outer cosmos.