Prakriya Pada Adhyaya 13 Shloka 7 - Brahmanda Purana | Hindi | Vedapath

Shloka 7

अग्निनिचयः (Agninichaya) / The Accumulation of Sacred Fire & the Classification of Pitṛs by Time-Order

Devanagari script

अग्निष्वात्ता स्मृतास्ते वै पितरो नाहिताग्नयः / यज्वानस्तेषु ये त्वासन्पितरः सोमपीथिनः

Transliteration

agniṣvāttā smṛtāste vai pitaro nāhitāgnayaḥ / yajvānasteṣu ye tvāsanpitaraḥ somapīthinaḥ

Translation

‘अग्निष्वात्त’ वे पितर हैं जिनके यहाँ अग्नि स्थापित नहीं थी; और उनमें जो यज्वान थे, वे सोमपान करने वाले पितर कहे गए।

Word by Word

अग्निष्वात्ताःthe Agniṣvātta (Pitṛs)

स्मृताःare remembered

तेthey

वैindeed

पितरःthe fathers/manes (Pitṛs)

नnot

आहिताग्नयःthose who have established the sacred fires

यज्वानःsacrificers

तेषुamong them

येwho

तुbut

आसन्were

पितरःPitṛs

सोमपीथिनःdrinkers of Soma