Shloka 13
Adhyaya 33 — Madālasa on the Fruit of Śrāddha Performed on Lunar Days and Nakṣatras
कुर्वन्तश्चानुराधासु लभन्ते चक्रवर्तिताम् ।
आधिपत्यञ्च ज्येष्ठासु मूले चारोग्यमुत्तमम् ॥
kurvantaś cānurādhāsu labhante cakravartitām | ādhipatyaṃ ca jyeṣṭhāsu mūle cārogyam uttamam ||
अनुराधा नक्षत्री श्राद्ध केल्याने चक्रवर्ती राज्य प्राप्त होते; ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्री प्रभुत्व, आणि मूळ नक्षत्री उत्तम आरोग्य मिळते.
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FAQs
Power and authority are depicted as downstream of dharma rather than mere force; legitimacy (ādhipatya) is tied to right conduct, including honoring the ancestral order.
Ācāra/dharma instruction; it uses the Purāṇic mode of promising karmic fruits to motivate correct practice.
Mūla (‘root’) granting health suggests a symbolic ‘root-repair’: tending to the ancestral root is imagined to stabilize the bodily root (vitality), while rulership fruits express the amplification of lineage merit into public authority.