Shloka 37
Adhyaya 32 — Rules for Parvana Śrāddha: Foods that Please the Ancestors and Items to Avoid
वसून् रुद्रांस्तथादित्यान् नक्षत्रग्रह तारकाः । प्रीणयन्ति मनुष्याणां पितरः श्राद्धतर्पिताः ॥
vasūn rudrāṃs tathādityān nakṣatra-graha-tārakāḥ / prīṇayanti manuṣyāṇāṃ pitaraḥ śrāddha-tarpitāḥ
श्राद्ध व तर्पणाने मनुष्यांचे पितर संतुष्ट झाले की ते वसु, रुद्र, आदित्य तसेच नक्षत्रे, ग्रह आणि तारे यांनाही प्रसन्न करतात.
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FAQs
Personal rites are portrayed as socially and cosmically significant: honoring ancestors supports the wider divine order, implying that private dharma participates in public/cosmic harmony.
Not pancalakṣaṇa; it is a dharma-ritual passage with cosmological coloring.
The verse maps a subtle network: Pitṛs as intermediaries between human conduct and cosmic forces (devas, grahas). Symbolically, gratitude stabilizes one’s ‘inner cosmos,’ reflected as harmony in the outer cosmos.