Shloka 42
Adhyaya 29 — Alarka’s Inquiry and Madalasa’s Teaching on Householder Dharma (Gārhasthya), Vaiśvadeva, and Atithi Hospitality
स्कन्धे विधाता देवाश्च पितरश्च महर्षयः । श्रेयोऽभिवर्षिणः सर्वे तथैवातिथिबान्धवाः ॥
skandhe vidhātā devāś ca pitaraś ca maharṣayaḥ | śreyo 'bhivarṣiṇaḥ sarve tathaivātithibāndhavāḥ ||
அவனுடைய தோள்மீது படைப்பாளர், தேவர்கள், பித்ருக்கள், மகரிஷிகள்—அனைவரும் தங்கியுள்ளனர்; அவர்கள் அவன்மேல் நலத்தைப் பொழிகின்றனர்; அதுபோல விருந்தினரும் உறவினரும் பொழிகின்றனர்.
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FAQs
The householder is portrayed as the social and ritual pillar: by sustaining guests, kin, and rites, he earns the blessings of cosmic and ancestral orders.
Ācāra/Dharma instruction; it supports purāṇic worldview but is not itself sarga/manvantara/vaṃśa narration.
‘On the shoulder’ suggests the embodied self as the bearer of cosmic obligations: when dharma is carried, higher forces ‘rain’ śreyas—inner clarity and harmony.