Shloka 49
Suvarṇa-dāna: Kārttikeya’s Origin and the Defeat of Tāraka (सुवर्णदान-प्रसङ्गे कार्त्तिकेय-उत्पत्ति तथा तारकवधः)
हव्यकव्येषु यज्ञेषु पितृकार्येषु चैव ह । सार्वकामिकमक्षय्यं पितृंस्तस्योपतिष्ठते
havyakavyeṣu yajñeṣu pitṛkāryeṣu caiva ha | sārvakāmikam akṣayyaṁ pitṝṁs tasyopatiṣṭhate puruṣasiṁha ||
ਹੇ ਪੁਰੁਸ਼ਸਿੰਹ! ਹਵ੍ਯ-ਕਵ੍ਯ ਵਾਲੇ ਯੱਗਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਤੇ ਪਿਤ੍ਰ-ਕਾਰਜਾਂ ਦੇ ਸਭ ਕਰਮਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਇਹ (ਕੀਰਤਨ) ਸਰਵਕਾਮ-ਸਿੱਧੀ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਅਤੇ ਅਖੰਡ ਫਲਦਾਇਕ ਹੈ; ਇਸ ਭਾਵ ਨਾਲ ਕੀਤਾ ਅਰਪਣ ਅਖੰਡ ਲਾਭ ਬਣ ਕੇ ਪਿਤਰਾਂ ਤੱਕ ਪਹੁੰਚਦਾ ਹੈ।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
That offerings made in yajña and śrāddha, when accompanied by devoted remembrance/recitation and focused mind, become akṣayya (undiminishing) and effectively reach the Pitṛs, yielding broad, wish-fulfilling merit.
Bhīṣma is instructing the listener (addressed as ‘puruṣasiṁha’) about the religious efficacy of performing ancestral rites and sacrificial offerings with proper recitation: such acts are said to deliver inexhaustible benefit to the ancestors and confer purifying merit on the performer.