Shloka 14
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
दाहे पुन: संश्रयणे संश्रिते पात्रभोजने । दाने गवां पशूनां वा पिण्डानामप्सु मज्जने
dāhe punaḥ saṁśrayaṇe saṁśrite pātrabhōjane | dāne gavāṁ paśūnāṁ vā piṇḍānām apsu majjane ||
迦毗罗说道：“在焚尸之礼中，在其后诸般后事仪轨中，在为亡者而供养应受供者之时，在布施牛或其他牲畜之时，以及在将祭奠饭团（piṇḍa）沉入水中之时——皆用吠陀真言。由此可知，这些行为皆根植于吠陀真言。”
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
That key post-death rites—cremation, śrāddha-related feeding, ritual donations (especially cows), and immersion of piṇḍas—are traditionally performed with Vedic mantras, indicating these practices are grounded in Vedic authority.
In the Śānti Parva’s Kapila discourse, Kapila enumerates common funerary and ancestral rites and emphasizes that mantras from the Veda are used in them, reinforcing the Veda as the ritual foundation for these observances.