Sraddha

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MAHABHARATA NOUN

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Mbh.1.2.348 The next must be known as Sraddha' describing the funeral rites performed for the slain Kauravas.
Mbh.1.62.3007 He that causeth even a single foot of this poem to be heard by Brahmanas during the performance of a Sraddha, maketh that Sraddha inexhaustible, the Pitris becoming ever gratified with the articles once presented to them.
Mbh.1.63.3080 But that very day the Pitris of Vasu came unto that best of monarchs and foremost of wise men, and asked him to slay deer for their Sraddha.
Mbh.1.66.3326 They are ten in all, Kirti, Lakshmi, Dhriti, Medha, Pushti, Sraddha, Kria, Buddhi, Lajja, and Mali.
Mbh.1.126.6786 After the completion of the first rites in honour of the dead, let the virtuous Pandu, who had all along been the supporter of the dignity of the Kurus, have the first annual Sraddha sapindakarana performed with a view to installing him formally among the Pitris'
Mbh.1.128.6822 SECTION CXXVIII Sambhava Parva continued Vaisampayana said, Then Bhishma and Kunti with their friends celebrated the Sraddha of the deceased monarch, and offered the Pinda.
Mbh.1.128.6827 When the Sraddha had been celebrated in the manner mentioned above, the venerable Vyasa, seeing all the subjects sunk in grief, said one day to his mother Satyavati, Mother, our days of happiness have gone by and days of calamity have succeeded.
Mbh.3.83.4366 Listen now, O king, to the merit acquired by that mortal who performeth a Sraddha on the day of the new moon during a solar eclipse.
Mbh.3.83.4367 The person that performeth a Sraddha there, after having bathed in that tirtha, obtaineth the merit that one earneth by properly celebrating a thousand horse-sacrifices.
Mbh.3.199.10119 That Sraddha which is censurable, consumeth the performer thereof like fire consuming fuel.
Mbh.3.311.15377 For what may a Sraddha be considered as dead?
Mbh.3.311.15381 A Sraddha that is performed with the aid of a priest that hath no learning may be regarded as dead.
Mbh.3.311.15387 Tell us also what is the proper time of a Sraddha, and then drink and take away as much as thou likest'
Mbh.3.311.15392 And a Brahmana is regarded as the proper time of a Sraddha
Mbh.5.33.1533 He who doth not perform the Sraddha for the Pitris, nor worshippeth the deities, nor acquireth noble-minded friends, is said to be a person of foolish soul.
Mbh.5.38.2025 As a Brahmana without having studied the Vedas is not fit to officiate at a Sraddha in honour of the Pitris, so he that hath not heard of the six means for protecting a kingdom deserveth not to take part in political deliberations.
Mbh.7.17.780 And having made that vow for the slaughter of Dhananjaya, they, in the hearing of creatures, very loudly said, Those regions that are for persons who have never adopted any vows, are for one who drinketh wine, those that are for him who hath adulterous connection with his preceptor's wife, those that are for him who robbeth the property of a Brahmana, or for him who enjoyeth the king's grant without satisfying the condition of that grant or for him who abandoneth one asking for shelter, or for him who slayeth a candidate for his favour, those that are for persons that set fire to houses and for those that slay kine, those regions that are for those that injure others, those that are for persons harbouring malice against Brahmanas, those that are for him who from folly doth not seek the companionship of his wife in her season, those also that are for those that seek the companionship of women on the day they have to perform the Sraddha of their ancestors, those that are for persons that injure their own selves, or for those that misappropriate what is deposited with them from confidence or for those that destroy learning, or for those who battle with eunuchs, or for those that follow persons that are mean those regions that are for atheists, or for those that abandon their sacred fires and mothers, and those regions also that are for the sinful, those shall be ours, if without slaying Dhananjaya we return from the field, or if, ground by him on the field, we turn back from fear.
Mbh.7.69.2941 Or, are all these lost like Sraddha as performed by a person of regenerate classes having a Sudra wife'
Mbh.12.42.2144 SECTION XLIII Vaisampayana said, After this king Yudhishthira of magnanimous soul caused the Sraddha rites to be performed of every one of his kinsmen slain in battle.
Mbh.12.42.2148 The king performed the Sraddha rite for the good in the next world, of every one of those kings also who had fallen in the battle without leaving kinsmen or friends behind.
Mbh.12.243.15026 Performing a sacrifice that is capable of being completed in a single day and in which the Dakshina should be everything of which he may be possessed, he should himself perform his own Sraddha.
Mbh.12.292.18293 By performing the rites of the Sraddha one is freed from one's debts to the Pitris.
Mbh.13.10.617 Possessed of great intelligence, and observant of righteousness, the Sudra received every direction, about the Sraddha, as laid down in the ordinance, from that Rishi endued with penances regarding the manner of spreading the Kusa grass, and placing the Arghyas, and as regards the rites to be observed in the matter of the libations to be poured and the food to be offered.
Mbh.13.22.3228 Yudhishthira said, If Brahmanas observant of the vow of Brahmacharyya in this world solicit the offerings one makes unto one's deceased ancestors in Sraddhas I ask, can the Sraddha be regarded well-performed, if the performer actually makes over those offerings unto such Brahmanas.
Mbh.13.22.3230 The Sraddha, however, is not regarded as stained in any way'
Mbh.13.23.3297 That Brahmana who has been once induced to accept the gift of food in a Sraddha at the very outset, as also he who has married a Sudra wife, even if possessed of every kind of knowledge do not deserve to be invited
Mbh.13.23.3314 That Brahmana, O chief of Bharata's race, who upon the completion of a Sraddha that is performed with his aid, refuses to utter the words astu swadha' incurs the sin of swearing falsely in a suit for land
Mbh.13.23.3315 The time for performing Sraddha, O Yudhishthira, is that when one obtains a good Brahmana and curds and ghee and the sacred day of the new moon, and the meat of wild animals such as deer and others
Mbh.13.23.3316 Upon the completion of a Sraddha performed by a Brahmana the word Swadha should be uttered.
Mbh.13.23.3318 Upon the completion of a Sraddha performed by a Vaisya, O Bharata, the words that should be uttered are, Let everything become inexhaustible,
Mbh.13.23.3319 Similarly, upon the conclusion of a Sraddha performed by a Sudra, the word that should be uttered is Swasti, In respect of a Brahmana, the declaration regarding Punyaham should be accompanied with the utterance of the syllable Om.
Mbh.13.62.6011 That Brahmana who recites this high declaration of the Vedas at the time of a Sraddha attains to the highest reward.
Mbh.13.62.6079 If these verses declaring the merit attaching to gifts of earth be recited on the occasion of a Sraddha, neither Rakshasas nor Asuras can succeed in appropriating any share of the offerings made in it.
Mbh.13.62.6080 Without doubt, the offerings one makes unto the Pitris at such a Sraddha become inexhaustible.
Mbh.13.66.6265 One should never perform a Sraddha with offerings of sesame seeds without cherishing some purpose
Mbh.13.66.6302 When a man performs a Sraddha in honour of the Pitris on earth belonging to another person, the Pitris render both the gift of that earth and the Sraddha itself futile
Mbh.13.84.7473 When my father Santanu of great energy departed from this world, I proceeded to Gangadwara for performing his Sraddha.
Mbh.13.84.7474 Arrived there, I commenced the Sraddha of my father.
Mbh.13.84.7481 Reflecting then, by the light of the scriptures, the conviction soon came upon me that the ordinance does occur in the Vedas that the cake should not be presented into the hand of him whose Sraddha is performed.
Mbh.13.87.7978 Do thou, after the same manner, Q king, discourse to me now on all the ordinances respecting the Sraddha of deceased ancestors'
Mbh.13.87.7979 Vaisampayana continued, Thus addressed by Yudhishthira, the son of Santanu set himself to declare unto him the following ritual, consistent with the ordinance of the Sraddha'
Mbh.13.87.7980 Bhishma said, Listen, O king, with close attention, to me as I discourse to you on the ritual of the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.87.7985 It is said, O king, that the Sraddha performed in honour of the Pitris is performable afterwards.
Mbh.13.87.7986 But this general rule is restrained by a special one which directs that the Sraddha in honour of the Pitris should be performed on the afternoon of the day of the New moon
Mbh.13.87.7987 The deceased grandsires become gratified with the Sraddha that may be performed on any day.
Mbh.13.87.7988 I shall, however, tell thee now what the merits and demerits are of the respective lunar days in view of their adaptability to the performance of the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.87.7989 I shall discourse to thee, O sinless one, what fruits are attained on what days by performing the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.87.7992 By performing the Sraddha on the second day of the lighted fortnight one gets many daughters.
Mbh.13.87.7995 They, O king, who perform the Sraddha on the fifth day, get many sons.
Mbh.13.87.7996 Those men who perform the Sraddha on the sixth day acquire great splendour.
Mbh.13.87.8003 By performing the Sraddha on the twelfth day one always beholds, if one desires, diverse kinds of beautiful articles made of silver and gold.
Mbh.13.87.8004 By performing the Sraddha on the thirteenth day one attains to eminence over one's kinsmen.
Mbh.13.87.8005 Without doubt, all the young men in the family of him who performs the Sraddha on the fourteenth day meet with death.
Mbh.13.87.8006 Such a man becomes entangled in war, By performing the Sraddha on the day of the new moon, one obtains the fruition of every wish.
Mbh.13.87.8007 In the dark fortnight, all the days commencing with the tenth and ending with that of the new moon, leaving only the fourteenth day out, are laudable days for the performance of the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.87.8009 Then, again, as the dark fortnight is better than the lighted one, so the afternoon of the day is better than the forenoon in the matter of the Sraddha
Mbh.13.88.8013 Bhishma said, Listen to me, O Yudhishthira, what those Havis are which persons conversant with the ritual of the Sraddha regard as suitable in view of the Sraddha and what the fruits are that attach to each.
Mbh.13.88.8015 Manu has said that if a Sraddha is performed with a copious measure of sesame, such Sraddha becomes inexhaustible.
Mbh.13.88.8022 With beef presented at the Sraddha, their gratification, it is said, lasts for a full year.
Mbh.13.88.8032 Many sons should be coveted so that even one may go to Gaya for performing the Sraddha of his ancestors, where stands the banian that is celebrated over all the worlds and that makes all offerings made under its branches inexhaustible
Mbh.13.89.8035 That man who always performs the Sraddha under the constellation Krittika is regarded as performing a sacrifice after establishing the sacred fire.
Mbh.13.89.8037 He that is desirous of children should perform the Sraddha under the constellation Rohini, while he that is desirous of energy should do it under the constellation Mrigasiras.
Mbh.13.89.8038 By performing the Sraddha under the constellation Ardra, a man becomes the doer of fierce deeds.
Mbh.13.89.8039 A mortal, by performing the Sraddha under Punarvasu, makes such again by agriculture.
Mbh.13.89.8040 The man that is desirous of growth and advancement should perform the Sraddha under Pushya.
Mbh.13.89.8044 By doing the Sraddha under the later Phalgunis one attains to many children; while by performing it under Hasta, one attains to the fruition of one's wishes.
Mbh.13.89.8047 The man that desires children acquires the fruition of his wish by performing the Sraddha under the constellation Visakha.
Mbh.13.89.8050 By doing the Sraddha under Mula one attains to health, and by doing it under the prior Ashadha, one acquires excellent fame.
Mbh.13.89.8054 The man that performs the Sraddha under the constellation Dhanishtha becomes the ruler of a kingdom.
Mbh.13.89.8056 By performing the Sraddha under the constellation of the prior Bhadrapada one acquires large property in goats and sheep; while by doing it under the later Bhadrapada one acquires thousands of kine.
Mbh.13.89.8057 By performing the Sraddha under the constellation Revati one acquires much wealth in utensils of white brass and copper.
Mbh.13.89.8059 Listening to these ordinances about the Sraddha, king Sasavindu acted accordingly, and succeeded in easily subjugating and ruling the whole earth
Mbh.13.90.8065 In Sraddhas, however, O monarch, the man of intelligence should examine the Brahmanas to be employed for assisting the doers of the Sraddha in getting through the ritual and making gifts unto them of the offerings made to the Pitris.
Mbh.13.90.8071 That person who having eaten at a Sraddha does not abstain that day from study of the Vedas or who has sexual congress that day with a Sudra woman, must know that his Pitris, in consequence of such acts of his, have to lie for a month on his dung.
Mbh.13.90.8084 That Sraddha which is performed without sesame seeds, or that which is done by a person in anger, has its Havi robbed by Rakshasas and Pisachas.
Mbh.13.90.8085 Commensurate with the number of Brahmanas seen by one that deserves to be excluded from the line, is the loss of merit he causes of the foolish performer of the Sraddha who invites him to the feast.
Mbh.13.90.8100 If he that is not a Ritwik and that is not a Vedic teacher takes the foremost seat in a Sraddha, with even the permission of the other Ritwiks there present, he is said to take by that act of his the sins of all who may be sitting in the line.
Mbh.13.90.8101 If, on the other hand, he happens to be conversant with the Vedas and freed from all those faults that are regarded as capable of polluting the line, he shall not, O king, be regarded as fallen by taking the foremost seat in a Sraddha.
Mbh.13.90.8106 He who collects his friends and relatives only on the occasion of the Sraddha he performs without keeping an eye on properly honouring deserving persons by inviting and feeding them, fails to proceed after death by the path of the deities which is a lighted one and free from all afflictions and impediments.
Mbh.13.90.8107 The man who makes the Sraddha he performs an occasion for only gathering his friends, never succeeds in ascending to heaven.
Mbh.13.90.8108 Verily, the man who converts the Sraddha into an occasion for treating his friends, becomes dissociated from heaven even like a bird dissociated from the perch when the chain tying it breaks
Mbh.13.90.8109 Therefore, he that performs a Sraddha should not honour on such occasions his friends.
Mbh.13.90.8112 As seed sown on a sterile soil does not sprout forth, or as one that has not sown does not get a share of the produce, even so that Sraddha the offerings in which are eaten by an unworthy person, yields no fruit either here or hereafter
Mbh.13.91.8132 SECTION XCI Yudhishthira said, By whom was the Sraddha first conceived and at what time?
Mbh.13.91.8134 During the time when the world was peopled by only the descendants of Bhrigu and Angiras; who was the muni that established the Sraddha?
Mbh.13.91.8135 What acts should not be done at Sraddha?
Mbh.13.91.8139 Bhishma said, Listen to me, O ruler of men, as I tell thee how the Sraddha was introduced, the time of such introduction, the essences of the rite, and the Muni who conceived it.
Mbh.13.91.8150 With concentrated attention he then conceived the idea of a Sraddha.
Mbh.13.91.8175 When water is being fetched for the Sraddha, the deity Varuna of great puissance should be praised.
Mbh.13.91.8195 From the place where the Sraddha is being performed, the Chandala and the Swapacha should be excluded, as also all who wear clothes steeped in yellow, and persons affected with leprosy, or one who has been excasted for transgressions, or one who is guilty of Brahmanicide, or a Brahmana of mixed descent or one who is the relative of an excasted man.
Mbh.13.91.8196 These all should be excluded by persons possessed of wisdom from the place where a Sraddha is being performed' Having said these words in days of old unto the Rishi Nimi of his own race, the illustrious Atri possessed of wealth of penances then went back to the Grandsire's assembly in Heaven
Mbh.13.92.8197 SECTION XCII Bhishma said, After Nimi had acted in the way described above, all the great Rishis began to perform the sacrifice in honour of the Pitris called the Sraddha according to rites laid down in the ordinance.
Mbh.13.92.8210 Agni said, Ye sires, when a Sraddha comes, we shall together eat the offerings made to us.
Mbh.13.92.8214 If a portion of the offerings be first made to the deity of fire at a Sraddha, O prince of men, Rakshasas of regenerate origin cannot then do any injury to such a Sraddha
Mbh.13.92.8215 Beholding the deity of fire at a Sraddha Rakshasas fly away from it.
Mbh.13.92.8216 The ritual of the Sraddha is that the cake should first be offered to the deceased sire.
Mbh.13.92.8219 Even this is the ordinance in respect of the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.92.8222 A woman that has become impure in consequence of the advent of her season, or one whose ears have been cut off, should not be allowed to remain where a Sraddha is being performed.
Mbh.13.92.8223 Nor should a woman for cooking the rice to be offered in the Sraddha be brought from a Gotra other than that of the person who is performing the Sraddha
Mbh.13.92.8232 Even this is the high ritual in respect of the Sraddha, O monarch!
Mbh.13.93.8236 SECTION XCIII Yudhishthira said, If Brahmanas that are in the observance of a vow viz, fast eat, at the invitation of a Brahmana, the Havi offered at a Sraddha, can they be charged with the transgression or a violation of their vow, or should they refuse the invitation of a Brahmana when such invitation is received by them?
Mbh.13.93.8239 As regards those Brahmanas, however, that are observant of such vows are indicated in the Vedas, they are regarded as guilty of a breach of their vow, O Yudhishthira, by eating the Havi of a Sraddha at the request of him who performs the Sraddha'
Mbh.13.94.8596 Let him eat at the Sraddha of a Sudra'
Mbh.13.97.8752 When a man desires to offer Sraddha to his ancestors, he should, when the Sraddha ceremony is concluded, gratify his ancestors and then make the Vali offerings in due order.
Mbh.13.104.9462 Nor should one eat at the Sraddha of an enemy.
Mbh.13.104.9528 One should never perform a Sraddha under the constellation of one's nativity.
Mbh.13.104.9529 No Sraddha should be performed under any of the Bhadrapadas prior or later, nor under the constellation Krittika, O Bharata.
Mbh.13.104.9530 The Sraddha should never be performed under any of those constellations that are regarded as fierce such as Aslesha, etc and any of those that, upon calculation, seem to be hostile.
Mbh.13.125.10839 In it is contained the ritual in respect of the Sraddha in which have been declared the mysteries connected with the Pitris.
Mbh.13.125.10849 Why, indeed, is sexual congress interdicted for the man who performs a Sraddha and for him also who eats at a Sraddha for the particular day?
Mbh.13.125.10850 Why are three rice-balls offered separately at a Sraddha?
Mbh.13.125.10859 The Pitris of that man who indulges in sexual congress on the day he performs a Sraddha, or eats at a Sraddha have to lie for the period of a whole month on his vital seed.
Mbh.13.125.10860 As regards the classification of the rice-balls offered at a Sraddha, we shall explain what should be done with them one after another.
Mbh.13.125.10864 Even this is the ordinance that has been declared in respect of the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.125.10883 Having heard from the holy Vyasa what the end is of the three rice-balls offered at the Sraddha, as explained by the Pitris themselves in reply to the question of the celestial messenger, I shall explain the same to thee.
Mbh.13.125.10884 Do thou hear, O monarch, what the conclusions are with respect to the ordinances about the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.125.10888 It has been laid down that the second rice-ball should be eaten by the spouse of the man that performs the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.125.10892 I have thus told thee everything about the end of the three rice-balls offered at the Sraddha and consigned to the three viz, water, the spouse, and the fire.
Mbh.13.125.10893 That Brahmana who becomes the Ritwik at a Sraddha constitutes himself, by that act, the Pitri of the person performing the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.125.10895 O best of all rangers of the sky, the man who eats at Sraddha should bear himself with purity for that day.
Mbh.13.125.10898 Hence, the Brahmana who is invited to a Sraddha for eating the offerings should eat them after purifying himself by a bath and bear himself piously for that day by abstaining from every kind of injury or evil.
Mbh.13.125.10959 Those men who make gifts, on the day of the new moon, of sesame seeds and water, mixed with honey and using a vessel of copper, O thou that art possessed of wealth of penances, are regarded as duly performing a Sraddha with all its mysteries.
Mbh.13.125.10963 Even thus has been laid down the proper time for the performance of the Sraddha, the ordinance in respect of the rites to be observed, the proper person that should be fed at the Sraddha, and the merits that attach to it.
Mbh.13.126.11004 The performer of the Sraddha who gives away such offerings unto such a Brahmana falls away from prosperity and multiplies not his race.
Mbh.13.126.11021 The man who makes such an offering to the Pitris under such circumstances, is regarded as performing a great Sraddha each year for thirteen years in succession
Mbh.13.127.11065 The Pitris of the man who allows such a woman to come near the place where the Sraddha is being performed by him, do not become gratified with him for thirteen years.
Mbh.13.127.11066 Robed in raiment of white, and becoming pure in body and mind, one should invite Brahmanas and cause them to utter their benedictions when one performs the Sraddha.
Mbh.13.128.11091 His Pitris also, when the time comes for him for performing the Sraddha, become gratified with him.
Mbh.13.132.11219 Casting aside wrath, and living on regulated diet, one should make these offerings at a Sraddha, uttering these mantras the while, Let Valadeva and other Nagas possessed of great strength, let other mighty snakes of huge bodies that are indestructible and eternal, and let all the other great snakes that have taken their birth in their race, make Vali offerings to me for the enhancement of my strength and energy.
Mbh.13.136.11324 For this reason, the Sraddha of deceased ancestors has been ordained to be performed in the afternoon and then the Brahmana who has been invited beforehand should be feasted, The Brahmana who partakes of food at the house of a dead person on the third day after the death, is purified by bathing three times daily for twelve days.
Mbh.13.143.11908 The same is said of the food that is cooked in view of the first Sraddha of a deceased person.
Mbh.13.162.13575 With well-cooked frumenty, Yavaka, Krisara, and Havi clarified butter, one should worship the Pitris and the deities in the Sraddha called Ashtaka.
Mbh.14.92.4358 In former times, the Rishi Jamadagni proposed to perform a Sraddha.
Mbh.15.2.52 Gandhari, by performing the diverse rites of the Sraddha and making gifts unto Brahmanas of diverse objects of enjoyment, became freed from the debt she owed to her slain children.
Mbh.15.11.535 He wishes to perform the Sraddha of the high-souled son of Ganga, as also of Drona and Somadatta and Valhika of great intelligence, and of all his sons as also of all well-wishers of his that have been slain, and, if thou permittest it, of that wicked-souled wight, viz, the ruler of the Sindhus
Mbh.18.5.282 The Pitris of that man who recites even a small portion of this history at a Sraddha, obtain inexhaustible food and drink.
Mbh.18.6.342 Having, with a concentrated soul and cleansed body, heard this history duly, from the beginning, and having reached its end, one should make Sraddha offerings, O Bharata, unto those foremost of persons who have been mentioned in it.
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