Shloka 14
Adhyaya 13 — The Son’s Account of Hell and the Question of Unseen Sin
पर्वकालेषु पितरस्तिथिकालेषु देवताः ।
पुरुषं स्वयमायान्ति निपानमिव धेनवः ॥
parvakāleṣu pitaras tithikāleṣu devatāḥ | puruṣaṃ svayam āyānti nipānam iva dhenavaḥ
ઉત્સવકાળે પિતૃઓ અને પુણ્ય તિથિઓએ દેવતાઓ સ્વયં મનુષ્ય પાસે આવે છે—જેમ ગાયો પાણીના ઘાટ પર આવે છે તેમ.
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FAQs
Regular observance of parva and tithi rites is portrayed as creating a dependable ‘meeting-point’ with ancestors and deities—dharma as sustained relationship, not occasional piety.
Dharma/ācāra instruction; tangential to pancalakṣaṇa, though Purāṇas often embed such ritual ethics alongside genealogies and manvantaras.
The watering-place metaphor implies the human being becomes an ādhāra (support) through śraddhā and regularity; subtle worlds ‘gravitate’ to that steadiness like cattle to water.