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Markandya Purana (Markendya Rishi)

मार्कण्डेयपुराणम्

The Markandeya Purana is one of the eighteen major Puranas, a Sanskrit text. It includes the famous Devi Mahatmya section, which praises the goddess Devi.

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 1

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 1

स तु लेपभुजो याति प्रलुप्तः पितृपिण्डतः।।

sa tu lepabhujo yāti praluptaḥ pitṛpiṇḍataḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 2

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 2

सो ऽपि सम्बन्धतो हीनमुपभोगं प्रपद्यते।।

so 'pi sambandhato hīnamupabhogaṃ prapadyate||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 3

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 3

पिण्डसम्बन्धिनो ह्येते विज्ञेयाः पुरुषास्त्रयः।।

piṇḍasambandhino hyete vijñeyāḥ puruṣāstrayaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 4

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 4

प्रभृत्युक्तास्त्रयस्तेषां यजमानश्च सप्तमः।।

prabhṛtyuktāstrayasteṣāṃ yajamānaśca saptamaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 5

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 5

यजमानात प्रभृत्यूर्ध्वमनुलेपभुजस्तथा।।

yajamānāt prabhṛtyūrdhvamanulepabhujastathā||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 6

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 6

ये च तिर्यक्त्वमापन्ना ये च भूतादिसंस्थिताः।।

ye ca tiryaktvamāpannā ye ca bhūtādisaṃsthitāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 7

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 7

समाप्याययते वत्स! येन येन शृणुष्व तत।।

samāpyāyayate vatsa! yena yena śṛṇuṣva tat||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 8

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 8

तेन तृत्पिमुपायान्ति ये पिशाचत्वमागताः।।

tena tṛtpimupāyānti ye piśācatvamāgatāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 9

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 9

तेन ये तरुतां प्राप्तास्तेषां तृप्तिः प्रजायते।।

tena ye tarutāṃ prāptāsteṣāṃ tṛptiḥ prajāyate||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 10

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 10

ताभिराप्यायनं तेषां ये देवत्वं कुले गताः।।

tābhirāpyāyanaṃ teṣāṃ ye devatvaṃ kule gatāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 11

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 11

ताभिराप्यायनं प्राप्ता ये तिर्यकत्वं कुले गताः।।

tābhirāpyāyanaṃ prāptā ye tiryakatvaṃ kule gatāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 12

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 12

विपन्नास्ते ऽन्नविकिर-संमार्जनजलाशिनः।।

vipannāste 'nnavikira-saṃmārjanajalāśinaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 13

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 13

ब्राह्मणानां तथैवान्ये तेन तृप्तिं प्रयान्ति वै।।

brāhmaṇānāṃ tathaivānye tena tṛptiṃ prayānti vai||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 14

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 14

कश्चिज्जलान्नविक्षेपः शुचिरुच्छिष्ट एव वा।।

kaścijjalānnavikṣepaḥ śucirucchiṣṭa eva vā||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 15

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 15

प्रयान्त्याप्यायनं वत्स! सम्यक श्राद्धक्रियावताम।।

prayāntyāpyāyanaṃ vatsa! samyak śrāddhakriyāvatām||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 16

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 16

तृप्यन्ते तेन चाण्डालपुक्कसाद्यासु योनिषु।।

tṛpyante tena cāṇḍālapukkasādyāsu yoniṣu||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 17

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 17

श्राद्धं कुर्वदिभरन्नाम्बुबिन्दुक्षेपेण जायते।।

śrāddhaṃ kurvadibharannāmbubindukṣepeṇa jāyate||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 18

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 18

कुर्वोत कुर्वतः श्राद्धं कुले कश्चिन्न सीदति।।

kurvota kurvataḥ śrāddhaṃ kule kaścinna sīdati||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 19

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 19

विधिना येन च नरैः क्रियते तन्निबोध मे।।

vidhinā yena ca naraiḥ kriyate tannibodha me||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 20

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 20

तथाष्टकास्वप्यवश्यमिच्छाकालं निबोध मे।।

tathāṣṭakāsvapyavaśyamicchākālaṃ nibodha me||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 21

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 21

विषुवे रविसंक्रान्तौ व्यतिपाते च पुत्रक।।

viṣuve ravisaṃkrāntau vyatipāte ca putraka||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 22

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 22

जन्मर्क्षग्रहपीडासु श्राद्धं कुर्वोत चेच्छया।।

janmarkṣagrahapīḍāsu śrāddhaṃ kurvota cecchayā||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 23

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 23

त्रिणाचिकेतस्त्रिमधुस्त्रिसुपर्णः षडङ्गवित।।

triṇāciketastrimadhustrisuparṇaḥ ṣaḍaṅgavit||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 24

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 24

पञ्चाग्निकर्मनिष्ठश्च तपोनिष्ठो ऽथ मातुलः।।

pañcāgnikarmaniṣṭhaśca taponiṣṭho 'tha mātulaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 25

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 25

एते द्विजोत्तमाः श्राद्धे समस्ताः केतनक्षमाः।।

ete dvijottamāḥ śrāddhe samastāḥ ketanakṣamāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 26

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 26

पौनर्भवस्तथा काणः कुण्डो गोलो ऽथ पुत्रक।।

paunarbhavastathā kāṇaḥ kuṇḍo golo 'tha putraka||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 27

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 27

अबिशस्तस्तु तातेन पिशुनः सोमविक्रयी।।

abiśastastu tātena piśunaḥ somavikrayī||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 28

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 28

भृतकाध्यापको ऽमित्रः परपूर्वापतिस्तथा।।

bhṛtakādhyāpako 'mitraḥ parapūrvāpatistathā||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 29

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 29

तथान्ये च विकर्मस्था वर्ज्याः पित्र्येषु वै द्विजाः।।

tathānye ca vikarmasthā varjyāḥ pitryeṣu vai dvijāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 30

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 30

दैवे नियोगे पित्र्ये च तांस्तथैवोपकल्पयेत।।

daive niyoge pitrye ca tāṃstathaivopakalpayet||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 31

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 31

श्राद्धं दत्त्वा च भुक्त्वा च मैथुनं यो ऽनुगच्छति।।

śrāddhaṃ dattvā ca bhuktvā ca maithunaṃ yo 'nugacchati||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 32

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 32

गत्वा च योषितं श्राद्धे यो भुङ्क्ते यश्च गच्छति।।

gatvā ca yoṣitaṃ śrāddhe yo bhuṅkte yaśca gacchati||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 33

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 33

तस्मात्तु प्रथमं कार्यं प्राज्ञेनोपनिमन्त्रणम।।

tasmāttu prathamaṃ kāryaṃ prājñenopanimantraṇam||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 34

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 34

भिक्षार्थमागतान वापि काले संयमिनो यतीन।।

bhikṣārthamāgatān vāpi kāle saṃyamino yatīn||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 35

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 35

यथैव शुक्लपक्षाद्वै पितॄणामसितः प्रियः।।

yathaiva śuklapakṣādvai pitṝṇāmasitaḥ priyaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 36

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 36

संपूज्य स्वागतेनैतानभ्युपेतान गृहे द्विजान।।

saṃpūjya svāgatenaitānabhyupetān gṛhe dvijān||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 37

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 37

पितॄणामयुजः कामं युग्मान दैवे द्विजोत्तमान।।

pitṝṇāmayujaḥ kāmaṃ yugmān daive dvijottamān||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 38

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 38

तथा मातामहानाञ्च तुल्यं वा वैश्वदेविकम।।

tathā mātāmahānāñca tulyaṃ vā vaiśvadevikam||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 39

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 39

प्राङ्मुखान्दैवसङ्कल्पान पैत्र्यान कुर्यादुदङ्मुखान।।

prāṅmukhāndaivasaṅkalpān paitryān kuryādudaṅmukhān||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 40

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 40

विष्टरार्थे कुशान दत्त्वा पूज्य चार्घ्यादिना बुधः।।

viṣṭarārthe kuśān dattvā pūjya cārghyādinā budhaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 41

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 41

कुर्यादावाहनं प्राज्ञो देवानां मन्त्रतो द्विजः।।

kuryādāvāhanaṃ prājño devānāṃ mantrato dvijaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 42

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 42

गन्धमाल्याम्बुधूपञ्च दत्त्वा सम्यक सदिपकम।।

gandhamālyāmbudhūpañca dattvā samyak sadipakam||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 43

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 43

दर्भांश्च द्विगुणान दत्त्वा तेभ्यो ऽनुज्ञामवाप्य च।।

darbhāṃśca dviguṇān dattvā tebhyo 'nujñāmavāpya ca||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 44

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 44

अपसव्यं तथा चार्घ्यं यवार्थञ्च तथा तिलैः।।

apasavyaṃ tathā cārghyaṃ yavārthañca tathā tilaiḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 45

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 45

अग्नौ कार्यमनुज्ञातः कुरुष्वेति ततो द्विजैः।।

agnau kāryamanujñātaḥ kuruṣveti tato dvijaiḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 46

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 46

अग्नये कव्यवाहाय स्वहेति प्रथमाहुतिः।।

agnaye kavyavāhāya svaheti prathamāhutiḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 47

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 47

यमाय प्रेतपतये स्वाहेति त्रितयाहुतिः।।

yamāya pretapataye svāheti tritayāhutiḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 48

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 48

भाजनालम्भनं कृत्वा दद्याच्चान्नं यथाविधि।।

bhājanālambhanaṃ kṛtvā dadyāccānnaṃ yathāvidhi||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 49

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 49

भुञ्जीरंश्च ततस्ते ऽपि तच्चित्ता मौनिनः सुखम।।

bhuñjīraṃśca tataste 'pi taccittā mauninaḥ sukham||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 50

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 50

अक्रुध्यंश्च नरो दद्यात सम्भवेन प्रलोभयन।।

akrudhyaṃśca naro dadyāt sambhavena pralobhayan||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 51

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 51

सिद्धार्थकैश्च रक्षार्थं श्राद्धं हि प्रचुरच्छलम।।

siddhārthakaiśca rakṣārthaṃ śrāddhaṃ hi pracuracchalam||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 52

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 52

अनुज्ञातो नरस्त्वन्नं प्रकिरेत भुवि सर्वतः।।

anujñāto narastvannaṃ prakiret bhuvi sarvataḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 53

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 53

अनुज्ञाञ्च ततः प्राप्य यतवाक्कायमानसः।।

anujñāñca tataḥ prāpya yatavākkāyamānasaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 54

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 54

पितनुद्दिश्य दर्भेषु दद्यादुच्छिष्टसन्निधौ।।

pitanuddiśya darbheṣu dadyāducchiṣṭasannidhau||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 55

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 55

पितॄनिद्दिश्य यद्भक्त्या यजमानो नृपात्मज।।

pitṝniddiśya yadbhaktyā yajamāno nṛpātmaja||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 56

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 56

गन्धमाल्यादिसंयुक्तं दद्यादाचमनं ततः।।

gandhamālyādisaṃyuktaṃ dadyādācamanaṃ tataḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 57

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 57

तैश्च तुष्टैस्तथेत्युक्त्वा वाचयेद्वैश्वदेविकान।।

taiśca tuṣṭaistathetyuktvā vācayedvaiśvadevikān||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 58

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 58

तथेति चोक्ते तैर्विप्रैः प्रार्थनीयास्तदाशिषः।।

tatheti cokte tairvipraiḥ prārthanīyāstadāśiṣaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 59

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 59

आद्वारमनुगच्छेच्चागच्छेच्चानुप्रमोदितः।।

ādvāramanugaccheccāgaccheccānupramoditaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 60

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 60

नित्यक्रियां पितॄणाञ्च केचिदिच्छन्ति सत्तमाः।।

nityakriyāṃ pitṝṇāñca kecidicchanti sattamāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 61

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 61

पृथक पाकेन नेत्यन्ये केचित पूर्वञ्च पूर्ववत।।

pṛthak pākena netyanye kecit pūrvañca pūrvavat||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 62

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 62

एवं कुर्वोत धर्मज्ञः श्राद्धं पित्र्यं समाहितः।।

evaṃ kurvota dharmajñaḥ śrāddhaṃ pitryaṃ samāhitaḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 63

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 63

त्रीणि श्राद्धे पवित्राणि दौहित्रं कुतपस्तिलाः।।

trīṇi śrāddhe pavitrāṇi dauhitraṃ kutapastilāḥ||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 64

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 64

राजतञ्च तथा पात्रं शस्तं श्राद्धेषु पुत्रक!।।

rājatañca tathā pātraṃ śastaṃ śrāddheṣu putraka!||

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Description of the Pārvaṇa Śrāddha - Verse 65

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 31 · Verse 65

तस्मात पितॄणां रजतमभीष्टं प्रीतिवर्धनम।।

tasmāt pitṝṇāṃ rajatamabhīṣṭaṃ prītivardhanam||

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