Shloka 19
Adhyaya 30 — Madālasā’s Instruction on Household Duties and Naimittika–Śrāddha Rites
मृताहनि यथान्यायं नॄणां यद्वदिहोदितम् ।
पुत्राभावे सपिण्डास्तु तदभावे सहोदकाः ॥
mṛtāhani yathānyāyaṃ nṝṇāṃ yadvad ihoditam |
putrābhāve sapiṇḍās tu tadabhāve sahodakāḥ ||
मरणदिने पुरुषाणां विधिः यथोक्तः नियमेनैव। पुत्राभावे सपिण्डैः कर्तव्यं, तेष्वभावे सहोदकैः कर्तव्यम्।
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FAQs
Dharma is distributed across a graded network of kinship: if the closest obligated person is absent, responsibility devolves to wider family—ensuring the dead are not abandoned.
Ancillary dharma/ācāra instruction.
The shift from sapiṇḍa to sahodaka reflects a diminishing but still valid ritual ‘conductivity’ of lineage—merit-transfer is conceived as possible through progressively wider relational circles.