Shloka 96
Śaraṇāgata-Atithi-Dharma in the Kapota Narrative (कपोत-आख्यानम्—शरणागतधर्मः)
ततः समारभत् कर्म दैवं पित्रयं च भारत । आहूय देवानिन्द्रादीन् भागं भागं विधिक्रमात्
tataḥ samārabhat karma daivaṁ pitryaṁ ca bhārata | āhūya devān indrādīn bhāgaṁ bhāgaṁ vidhikramāt ||
भरतनन्दन! फिर उन्होंने देवकर्म और पितृकर्म आरम्भ किया। इन्द्र आदि देवताओं का आवाहन करके, विधि-क्रम से प्रत्येक को पृथक्-पृथक् भाग अर्पित किया।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma is upheld through orderly performance of prescribed obligations: honoring both the gods (deva-yajña) and the ancestors (pitṛ-yajña) by offering each their due share according to scriptural procedure.
A ritual sequence is described: the performer begins divine and ancestral rites, formally invokes Indra and other deities, and distributes offerings to each in the correct, rule-governed order.