Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
विशिष्टब्राह्मणप्राप्तौ सूर्येन्दुग्रहणे 'यने ।
विषुवे रविसंक्रान्तौ व्यतिपाते च पुत्रक ॥
viśiṣṭa-brāhmaṇa-prāptau sūryendu-grahaṇe 'yane /
viṣuve ravi-saṃkrāntau vyatipāte ca putraka
اے بیٹے! جب بہترین برہمن میسر ہو، تو سورج یا چاند کے گرہن میں، اَیَن (انقلابِ موسم) کے مواقع پر، اعتدال (وِشُو) میں، سنکرانتی میں اور وْیَتیپات میں (شرادھ کیا جا سکتا ہے)۔
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Ritual efficacy is heightened by both worthy recipients (qualified brāhmaṇas) and liminal cosmic events (eclipses, transitions). The verse teaches discernment: choose times and persons that maximize dharmic impact.
Ācāra/karma-kāṇḍa guidance; tangentially connected to cosmic order (kāla) but not a pancalakṣaṇa narrative unit.
Eclipses and transitional points represent ‘thresholds’ where ordinary order is suspended; offerings at such times are understood to penetrate subtler planes more strongly, linking ancestors, time, and cosmic regulation.