Shloka 14
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
दाहे पुन: संश्रयणे संश्रिते पात्रभोजने । दाने गवां पशूनां वा पिण्डानामप्सु मज्जने
dāhe punaḥ saṁśrayaṇe saṁśrite pātrabhōjane | dāne gavāṁ paśūnāṁ vā piṇḍānām apsu majjane ||
Kapila berkata: “Dalam pembakaran jenazah, dalam rangkaian ritus sesudahnya, dalam memberi makan pihak yang layak atas nama mendiang, dalam sedekah sapi atau hewan lain, dan dalam menenggelamkan piṇḍa (bola nasi persembahan) ke air—mantera Weda digunakan. Maka tindakan-tindakan ini berakar pada mantera Weda.”
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
That key post-death rites—cremation, śrāddha-related feeding, ritual donations (especially cows), and immersion of piṇḍas—are traditionally performed with Vedic mantras, indicating these practices are grounded in Vedic authority.
In the Śānti Parva’s Kapila discourse, Kapila enumerates common funerary and ancestral rites and emphasizes that mantras from the Veda are used in them, reinforcing the Veda as the ritual foundation for these observances.