Shloka 64

Pitṛ-Śrāddha Vidhi: Rājata-dāna, Kṛṣṇājina, and Vedi/Garta Construction

Ancestral Rite Protocols

Devanagari script

नमो वः पितरः सौम्यः पठन्नेवमतन्द्रितः / सव्योत्तराभ्यां पाणिभ्यां धर्मेर्ऽधं समतन्द्रितः

Transliteration

namo vaḥ pitaraḥ saumyaḥ paṭhannevamatandritaḥ / savyottarābhyāṃ pāṇibhyāṃ dharmer'dhaṃ samatandritaḥ

Translation

Hommage à vous, ô Pitṛ. Que l’homme au cœur doux récite ainsi sans relâche; de la main gauche et des deux mains levées, qu’il offre l’arghya dans l’acte de dharma.

Word by Word

• namaḥ: salutation
• namaḥ: Sambodhana/Address (सम्बोधन-प्रयोग)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: namas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), interjection/particle (नमस्कारार्थक-निपात)

• vaḥ: to you / of you (pl.)
• vaḥ: Sampradana/Recipient (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yusmad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Pronoun (सर्वनाम), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी) or Dative (4th/चतुर्थी), Plural (बहुवचन)

• pitaraḥ: O Fathers (manes)
• pitaraḥ: Sambodhana/Address (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pitṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Vocative (8th/सम्बोधन), Plural (बहुवचन)

• saumyaḥ: gentle/auspicious (one)
• saumyaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saumya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); used as epithet

• paṭhan: reciting/reading
• paṭhan: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: paṭh (धातु)
• Form: Present active participle (वर्तमान-कृदन्त/शतृ), Masculine, Nominative Singular; from √paṭh (पठ्)

• eva: indeed/just
• eva: Sambandha/Modifier (विशेषण-भाव)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), emphatic particle (निश्चयार्थक)

• evam: thus
• evam: Kriya-visheshaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: evam (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), adverb (प्रकारवाचक)

• atandritaḥ: unwearied/attentive
• atandritaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: a-tandrita (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative Singular; negated adjective (नञ्-प्रत्यय)

• savya-uttarābhyām: with the left and right
• savya-uttarābhyām: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: savya (प्रातिपदिक) + uttara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Dual (द्विवचन), Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया); dvandva indicating 'left and right'

• pāṇibhyām: with (both) hands
• pāṇibhyām: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāṇi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया), Dual (द्विवचन)

• dharmeḥ: of the rite/dharma
• dharmeḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dharma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन); Vedic/archaic genitive ending -eḥ

• ardham: half
• ardham: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ardha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular

• samatandritaḥ: equally attentive
• samatandritaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sama-atandrita (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative Singular; karmadhāraya: sama + atandrita ('equally attentive')