Shloka 51
Adhyaya 35 — Madālasa’s Instruction on Purity, Impurity, and Corrective Rites (Śauca and Aśauca)
स्वाः स्वाः कर्मक्रियाः कुर्युः सर्वे वर्णा यथाविधि ।
प्रेतमुद्दिश्य कर्तव्यमेकोद्दिष्टं ततः परम् ॥
svāḥ svāḥ karmakriyāḥ kuryuḥ sarve varṇā yathāvidhi /
pretam uddiśya kartavyam ekoddiṣṭaṃ tataḥ param
تمام ورن اپنے اپنے قاعدے کے مطابق اپنے فرائضِ رسومات ادا کریں۔ اس کے بعد پریت (مرحوم) کے لیے قاعدے کے مطابق ایکوُدِّشٹ شرادھ انجام دیا جائے۔
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FAQs
Care for the departed is framed as a duty integrated into social order: each person performs rites in a manner consistent with their station and injunctions, expressing responsibility across generations.
Not a pañcalakṣaṇa core (sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita). It is dharma-ācāra instruction embedded in purāṇic narrative.
Ekoddiṣṭa indicates focused intention (saṅkalpa) toward one ancestor—symbolically, the mind’s one-pointed offering that transforms grief into ordered remembrance.