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
رشتہ داروں کے کیے ہوئے تیل کے ابھینجن اور اعضا کی مالش سے وہ پریت جیو بھی تازگی اور سہارا پاتا ہے؛ اور اسی طرح رسومات کے دوران رشتہ دار جو کھاتے ہیں اس سے بھی۔
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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.