ये मृता राजशार्दूल ते नराः स्वर्ग गामिनः । उत्पाद्य पुत्रान्संस्थाप्य पितृपैतामहे पदे
ye mṛtā rājaśārdūla te narāḥ svarga gāminaḥ | utpādya putrānsaṃsthāpya pitṛpaitāmahe pade
اے بادشاہوں کے شیر، جو مرد اس مقدس سیاق میں مرتے ہیں وہ جنت کو جاتے ہیں—بیٹے پیدا کرکے اور انہیں آباؤ اجداد کے مقام پر قائم کرکے باپ دادا کی نسل کو جاری رکھتے ہیں۔
A narrator/teacher voice within the Vastrāpatha Māhātmya (contextual speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A king (rājaśārdūla)
Scene: A king listens as a sage describes men who die in the sacred precinct; behind them, a household scene shows sons performing ancestral rites, symbolizing ‘paitāmaha-pada’ continuity.
Punya connected with sacred death and righteous household duty culminates in svarga, especially when one sustains the ancestral line through dharmic progeny.
The Vastrāpatha kṣetra/mahātīrtha in Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa is being praised in this section.
No specific ritual is prescribed here; the verse emphasizes putra-dharma and ancestral establishment as a dharmic ideal.