Shloka 9
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
यदम्बु स्नानवस्त्रोत्थं भूमौ पतति पुत्रक ।
तेन ये तरुतां प्राप्तास्तेषां तृप्तिः प्रजायते ॥
yad ambu strānavastrotthaṃ bhūmau patati putraka / tena ye tarutāṃ prāptās teṣāṃ tṛptiḥ prajāyate
प्रिय बाळा, स्नान व वस्त्रधुण्यामुळे जे पाणी जमिनीवर पडते, त्याने वृक्षभाव प्राप्त झालेले तृप्त होतात।
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FAQs
Daily purity-practices are not merely personal hygiene; they are framed as dharmic acts with compassionate spillover effects, benefiting beings (including ancestors) in non-human conditions.
Falls under Ācāra/Dharma instruction; it is ancillary to Purāṇic cosmology by mapping ethical action onto rebirth categories.
Water, as a carrier of saṃskāra (impressions), becomes an offering even when ‘incidental’; the verse encodes the idea that purity generates subtle nourishment across embodied forms.