Shloka 50
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
पितुरर्थं समुद्दिश्य भूमिदानादिकं स्वयम् कुर्याद्येनास्य सुप्रीताः पितरो यान्ति राक्षस
piturarthaṃ samuddiśya bhūmidānādikaṃ svayam kuryādyenāsya suprītāḥ pitaro yānti rākṣasa
తండ్రి నిమిత్తంగా అర్పించి, భూమిదానము మొదలైన దానాలను స్వయంగా చేయాలి; దానివల్ల అతని పితరులు అత్యంత సంతోషిస్తారు, ఓ రాక్షసా।
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FAQs
The ethical center is gratitude enacted as generosity: supporting others through dāna—explicitly dedicated to the departed—becomes a socially beneficial way of honoring one’s father and stabilizing dharma across generations.
This is dharma-śikṣā (instruction on right conduct), a common purāṇic function alongside pancalakṣaṇa narratives; it is best cataloged as ācāra/dāna-vidhi material rather than cosmology or dynastic history.
Land-gift symbolizes transferring ‘support’ itself: bhūmi is the basis of sustenance, so donating it (or similar gifts) signifies converting personal holdings into lasting merit, imagined as reaching and pleasing the ancestral realm.