Shloka 36
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
तथापराह्नः पूर्वाह्नात् पितॄणामतिरिच्यते ।
सम्पूज्य स्वागतेनैतानभ्युपेतान् गृहे द्विजान् ॥
tathāparāhnaḥ pūrvāhnāt pitṝṇāmatiricyate | saṃpūjya svāgatenaitānabhyupetān gṛhe dvijān ||
اسی طرح صبح کے وقت کے مقابلے میں دوپہر کے بعد کا وقت پِتروں کو زیادہ پسند ہے۔ خوش آمدید کے کلمات سے باقاعدہ تعظیم کرکے، جو برہمن آئے ہوں انہیں اپنے گھر میں قبول کرے۔
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FAQs
Time-discipline and courteous reception are both treated as offerings. The performer’s attentiveness is a form of devotion toward the unseen pitṛs, mediated through visible guests.
Ācāra/dharma material; it prescribes pitṛ-rite timing (kāla) and etiquette.
Afternoon (declining sun) is symbolically aligned with the ancestral realm and ‘setting’ energies; the rite harmonizes with that subtle directionality.