Shloka 8

तीर्थवंशोपदेशः

Tīrtha-vaṃśa Upadeśa: Instruction on the Fruits of Sacred Waters

Devanagari script

परोच्छिष्टं च यद्‌ भुक्तं परिभुक्त च यद्‌ भवेत्‌ । दैवे पित्रये च सततं त॑ भागं रक्षसां विदु:

Transliteration

bhīṣma uvāca | parocchiṣṭaṃ ca yad bhuktaṃ paribhuktaṃ ca yad bhavet | daive pitrye ca satataṃ taṃ bhāgaṃ rakṣasāṃ viduḥ ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「他人の食べ残しとなった食物、あるいはすでに口をつけられた食物、また同様に、神々とピトリ（Pitṛ、祖霊）に然るべき分を先に供えずに自ら享受した食物——そのような食は、神々の祭儀および祖霊の祭儀において、常に羅刹（rākṣasa）の取り分と見なされる。」

Word by Word

• {'parocchiṣṭa': 'made into another’s leavings

• defiled by someone else’s remnants', 'ucchiṣṭa': 'leavings after eating

• ritually impure remainder', 'bhukta': 'eaten

• consumed', 'paribhukta': 'partly eaten/used up

• already enjoyed by someone', 'daiva': 'pertaining to the gods

• divine rite/oblation', 'pitrya (pitṛya)': 'pertaining to the Pitṛs (ancestors)

• ancestral rite/śrāddha context', 'satataṃ': 'always

• continually', 'bhāga': 'share

• allotted portion (in an offering/rite)', 'rakṣasām': 'of the rākṣasas (demons)

• belonging to demonic forces', 'viduḥ': 'they know/consider

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Devas (gods)
• Pitṛs (ancestors)
• Rākṣasas