Shloka 14
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
दाहे पुन: संश्रयणे संश्रिते पात्रभोजने । दाने गवां पशूनां वा पिण्डानामप्सु मज्जने
dāhe punaḥ saṁśrayaṇe saṁśrite pātrabhōjane | dāne gavāṁ paśūnāṁ vā piṇḍānām apsu majjane ||
दाहे पुनः संश्रयणे संश्रिते पात्रभोजने। दाने गवां पशूनां वा पिण्डानामप्सु मज्जने॥ एतेषु कर्मसु मन्त्राः प्रयुज्यन्ते; वेदमन्त्रनिबन्धनानि हि कर्माणि।
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
That key post-death rites—cremation, śrāddha-related feeding, ritual donations (especially cows), and immersion of piṇḍas—are traditionally performed with Vedic mantras, indicating these practices are grounded in Vedic authority.
In the Śānti Parva’s Kapila discourse, Kapila enumerates common funerary and ancestral rites and emphasizes that mantras from the Veda are used in them, reinforcing the Veda as the ritual foundation for these observances.