Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
श्राद्धार्हद्रव्यसम्प्राप्तौ तथा दुःस्वप्नदर्शने ।
जन्मर्क्षग्रहपीडासु श्राद्धं कुर्वोत चेच्छया ॥
śrāddhārha-dravya-samprāptau tathā duḥsvapna-darśane /
janmarkṣa-graha-pīḍāsu śrāddhaṃ kurvīta cecchayā
جب شرادھ کے لائق سامان میسر ہو، نیز بدخواب (برا خواب) نظر آئے، یا جنم نچھتر یا سیاروں کی اذیت لاحق ہو—تو بھی اختیاراً شرادھ کیا جا سکتا ہے۔
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Śrāddha functions not only as obligation but also as remedial piety: when life shows signs of disorder (omens, afflictions), one restores harmony through ancestral propitiation and generosity.
Ācāra/prāyaścitta-adjacent instruction (though not explicit penance). Not a pancalakṣaṇa category.
Dreams and graha-afflictions are read as disturbances in subtle causality; feeding the Pitṛs is a way of ‘re-threading’ one’s karmic lineage, invoking ancestral blessings to stabilize fate.