Shloka 32
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
पितरस्तु तयोर् मासं तस्मिन् रेतसि शेरते ।
गत्वा च योषितं श्राद्धे यो भुङ्क्ते यश्च गच्छति ॥
pitarastu tayormāsaṃ tasmin retasi śerate | gatvā ca yoṣitaṃ śrāddhe yo bhuṅkte yaśca gacchati ||
The ancestors of those two (the man and the woman) lie for a month in that semen. And regarding śrāddha: one who goes to a woman (for sex), one who eats thereafter, and one who departs in that state are implicated, as clarified in the next verse.
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FAQs
The text uses strong bodily imagery to deter indulgence: personal acts are said to rebound upon one’s lineage, stressing responsibility toward ancestors and descendants.
Ācāra/dharma passage; it is prescriptive and consequence-oriented rather than cosmological or genealogical.
The ‘month’ motif echoes cycles of bodily/ritual time; the pitṛs are symbolically bound to the performer’s bodily state, implying that ritual purity is not merely external but psycho-physical.