Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 13.135
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13.135.1
किंस्विद्दत्तं पितृभ्यो वै भवत्यक्षयमीश्वरः ।
किंस्विद्वहुफलं प्रोक्तं किमानन्त्याय कल्पते ॥ १३.१३५.१ ॥
What, given to the ancestors, becomes imperishable like the Lord? What is declared to bear much fruit? What is fit for endlessness?
13.135.2
हवींषि श्राद्धकल्पे तु यानि श्राद्धविदो विदुः ।
तानि मे शृणु काम्यानि फलं चैषां युधिष्ठिर ॥ १३.१३५.२ ॥
In the rite of śrāddha, the offerings that the knowers of śrāddha know, and their desired fruits — hear them from me, Yudhiṣṭhira.
13.135.3
तिलैर्व्रीहियवैर्माषैरद्भिर्मूलफलैस्तथा ।
दत्तेन मासं प्रीयन्ते श्राद्धेन पितरो नृप ॥ १३.१३५.३ ॥
With sesame, rice, barley, black gram, water, roots and fruits, offered in śrāddha — by this, O king, the ancestors are pleased for a month.
13.135.4
वर्धमानतिलं श्राद्धमक्षयं मनुरब्रवीत् ।
सर्वेष्वेव तु भोज्येषु तिलाः प्राधान्यतः स्मृताः ॥ १३.१३५.४ ॥
Manu said that a śrāddha with increased sesame is imperishable; among all the foods offered, sesame is remembered as the chief.
13.135.5
द्वौ मासौ तु भवेत्तुप्तिर्मत्स्यैः तितृगणस्य ह ।
त्रीन्मासानाविकेनाहुश्चतुर्मासं शशेन ह ॥ १३.१३५.५ ॥
With fish the satisfaction lasts two months, and likewise with the flesh of the titṛ birds; with mutton three months, and with hare flesh four months, they say.
13.135.6
आजेन मासान्प्रीयन्ते पञ्चैव पितरो नृप ।
वाराहेण तु षण्मासान्सप्त वै शाकुलेन तु ॥ १३.१३५.६ ॥
With goat flesh the ancestors are pleased for five months, O king; with boar flesh six months, and with the śākula fish seven months.
13.135.7
मासानष्टौ पार्षतेन रौरवेण नव प्रभो ।
गवयस्य तु मांसेन तृप्तिः स्याद्दशमासिकी ॥ १३.१३५.७ ॥
O lord, with the flesh of the pārṣata deer the satisfaction lasts eight months, with the flesh of the ruru deer nine months; with the flesh of the gavaya it lasts ten months.
13.135.8
मांसेनेकादश प्रीतिः पितॄणां माहिषेण तु ।
गव्येन दत्ते श्राद्धे तु संवत्सरमिहोच्यते ॥ १३.१३५.८ ॥
With meat, the ancestors' satisfaction lasts eleven months; so too with buffalo meat. When a śrāddha is offered with cow products, it is here declared to last a full year.
13.135.9
यथा गव्यं तथा युक्तं पायसं सर्पिषा सह ।
वाध्रीणसस्य मांसेन तृप्तिर्द्वादशवार्षिकी ॥ १३.१३५.९ ॥
Just as cow-products are fitting, so too is rice pudding with ghee. With the meat of the vādhrīṇasa, satisfaction lasts twelve years.
13.135.10
आन्त्याय भवेद्दतं खङ्गमांसं पितृक्षते ।
कालशाकं च लौहं चाप्यानन्त्यं छाग उच्यते ॥ १३.१३५.१० ॥
Rhinoceros meat offered at an āntya rite is fitting for the ancestral rite; black-leaved greens and iron too. For unending fruit, the goat is declared.
13.135.11
गाथाश्चाप्यत्र गायन्ति पितृगीता युधिष्ठिर ।
सनत्कुमारो भगवान्पुरा मध्यभ्यभाषत ॥ १३.१३५.११ ॥
O Yudhiṣṭhira, on this subject the verses of the Pitṛ-gītā are also sung; the venerable Sanatkumāra spoke them of old.
13.135.12
अपि नः स्वकुले जायाद्यो नो दद्यात्त्रयोदशीम् ।
मघासु सर्पिःसंयुक्तं पायसं दक्षिणायने ॥ १३.१३५.१२ ॥
May someone be born in our own family who, on the thirteenth lunar day, under the Maghā asterism, during the southern course of the sun, offers us rice pudding mixed with ghee.
13.135.13
आजेन वाऽपि लौहेन मघास्वेव यतव्रतः ।
हस्तिच्छायासु विधिवत्कर्णव्यजनवीजितम् ॥ १३.१३५.१३ ॥
Whether with goat-flesh or with iron, in the Maghā asterisms only, keeping strict vows, in the shade of an elephant, rightly performed, fanned with an ear-fan.
13.135.14
एष्टव्या बहवः पुत्रा यद्येकोपि गयां व्रजेत् ।
यत्रासौ प्रथितो लोकेष्वक्ष्यकरणो वटः ॥ १३.१३५.१४ ॥
Many sons are to be desired; even if one of them goes to Gayā, where the banyan tree, renowned in the worlds, grants imperishability.
13.135.15
आपो मूलं फलं मांसमन्नं वाऽपि पितृक्षये ।
यत्किञ्चिन्मधुसंमिश्रं तदानन्त्याय कल्पते ॥ १३.१३५.१५ ॥
Water, root, fruit, flesh, or food at the time of the ancestral rite — whatever is mixed with honey becomes fit for endless merit.