Shloka 49
Suvarṇa-dāna: Kārttikeya’s Origin and the Defeat of Tāraka (सुवर्णदान-प्रसङ्गे कार्त्तिकेय-उत्पत्ति तथा तारकवधः)
हव्यकव्येषु यज्ञेषु पितृकार्येषु चैव ह । सार्वकामिकमक्षय्यं पितृंस्तस्योपतिष्ठते
havyakavyeṣu yajñeṣu pitṛkāryeṣu caiva ha | sārvakāmikam akṣayyaṁ pitṝṁs tasyopatiṣṭhate puruṣasiṁha ||
Bhīṣma sprach: „O Löwe unter den Menschen, in Opfern, bei denen havya dargebracht wird, und in Ahnenriten, bei denen kavya dargebracht wird, ja in allen Handlungen für die Pitṛs, wird dieses Rezitieren und Gedenken allgemein wunscherfüllend und unerschöpflich. Die Gaben, die mit solcher gesammelter Hingabe dargebracht werden, gelangen als unverminderter Nutzen zu den Ahnen und vermögen alle rechtmäßigen Wünsche zu erfüllen.“
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
That offerings made in yajña and śrāddha, when accompanied by devoted remembrance/recitation and focused mind, become akṣayya (undiminishing) and effectively reach the Pitṛs, yielding broad, wish-fulfilling merit.
Bhīṣma is instructing the listener (addressed as ‘puruṣasiṁha’) about the religious efficacy of performing ancestral rites and sacrificial offerings with proper recitation: such acts are said to deliver inexhaustible benefit to the ancestors and confer purifying merit on the performer.