Shloka 51
Adhyaya 35 — Madālasa’s Instruction on Purity, Impurity, and Corrective Rites (Śauca and Aśauca)
स्वाः स्वाः कर्मक्रियाः कुर्युः सर्वे वर्णा यथाविधि ।
प्रेतमुद्दिश्य कर्तव्यमेकोद्दिष्टं ततः परम् ॥
svāḥ svāḥ karmakriyāḥ kuryuḥ sarve varṇā yathāvidhi /
pretam uddiśya kartavyam ekoddiṣṭaṃ tataḥ param
सर्वे वर्णाः स्वस्वविधिना स्वकर्माणि कुर्युः। ततः परं प्रेतस्यैकॊद्दिष्टं कर्म विधिवत् कार्यम्।
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FAQs
Care for the departed is framed as a duty integrated into social order: each person performs rites in a manner consistent with their station and injunctions, expressing responsibility across generations.
Not a pañcalakṣaṇa core (sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita). It is dharma-ācāra instruction embedded in purāṇic narrative.
Ekoddiṣṭa indicates focused intention (saṅkalpa) toward one ancestor—symbolically, the mind’s one-pointed offering that transforms grief into ordered remembrance.