Shloka 73
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
तैलाभ्यङ्गो बान्धवानामङ्गसंवाहनञ्च यत् ।
तेन चाप्याय्यते जन्तुर्यच्चाश्नन्ति सबान्धवाः ॥
tailābhyaṅgo bāndhavānāmaṅgasaṃvāhanañca yat /
tena cāpyāyyate janturyaccāśnanti sabāndhavāḥ
உறவினர்கள் செய்யும் எண்ணெய் அப்யங்கமும் அங்கமர்த்தனமும் அந்த பிரேதஜீவனைத் தணித்து நிலைநிறுத்துகின்றன; அதுபோலவே, சடங்கின்போது உறவினர்கள் உண்ணும் உணவினாலும்.
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FAQs
Care shown by the family—through prescribed acts—extends compassion beyond death. The verse frames household rites as an ethical obligation with real consequences for the departed.
Ācāra/dharma teaching; not a core genealogical/cosmogonic pañcalakṣaṇa segment.
Physical acts (massage, eating) are treated as ritual ‘correspondences’ that generate subtle benefit, implying a symbolic bridge between gross actions and subtle nourishment for the preta.