Adhyaya 35 — Madālasa’s Instruction on Purity, Impurity, and Corrective Rites (Śauca and Aśauca)
एष एव विधिर्दृष्टो जन्मन्यपि हि सूतके ।
सपिण्डानां सपिण्डेषु यथावत्सोदकेषु च ॥
eṣa eva vidhir dṛṣṭo janmany api hi sūtake | sapiṇḍānāṃ sapiṇḍeṣu yathāvat sodakeṣu ca ||
Cette même règle est observée aussi pour l’impureté de naissance (sūtaka). Parmi les parents sapiṇḍa, elle s’applique correctement, et de même en ce qui concerne les rites liés à l’eau.
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Birth and death are treated as symmetrical thresholds; dharma provides comparable procedures for both, emphasizing continuity of lineage and regulated reintegration.
Ācāra/dharma instruction; tangentially related to vaṃśa (lineage) concerns but not a vaṃśa narrative.
Both birth and death disturb the household’s subtle equilibrium; the same ‘technology’ of purification and water-rites restores balance across opposite transitions.