Shloka 36
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
तथापराह्नः पूर्वाह्नात् पितॄणामतिरिच्यते ।
सम्पूज्य स्वागतेनैतानभ्युपेतान् गृहे द्विजान् ॥
tathāparāhnaḥ pūrvāhnāt pitṝṇāmatiricyate | saṃpūjya svāgatenaitānabhyupetān gṛhe dvijān ||
അതുപോലെ മുൻപകലിനെക്കാൾ ഉച്ചകഴിഞ്ഞ സമയം പിതൃകൾക്ക് കൂടുതൽ പ്രിയമാണ്. സ്വാഗതവചനങ്ങളാൽ യഥാവിധി ആദരിച്ചു, എത്തിയ ബ്രാഹ്മണരെ വീട്ടിൽ സ്വീകരിക്കണം।
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FAQs
Time-discipline and courteous reception are both treated as offerings. The performer’s attentiveness is a form of devotion toward the unseen pitṛs, mediated through visible guests.
Ācāra/dharma material; it prescribes pitṛ-rite timing (kāla) and etiquette.
Afternoon (declining sun) is symbolically aligned with the ancestral realm and ‘setting’ energies; the rite harmonizes with that subtle directionality.