Rides governing Sraddha {contd.) Vydsa said : - Verse 25
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 21 · Verse 25
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Sanskrit Original
ब्राह्मणो ह्यनधीयानस्तृणाग्निरिव शाम्यति। तस्मै हव्यं न दातव्यं न हि भस्मनि हूयते।।
brāhmaṇo hyanadhīyānastṛṇāgniriva śāmyati| tasmai havyaṃ na dātavyaṃ na hi bhasmani hūyate||
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If a non-knower of Mantras partakes of food- oblations in Havya and Kavya (offered to gods and Pitfs), the performer of that Sraddhais compelled to swallow after death as many burning thick balls of iron (in number) as the rice- balls swallowed by that non-knower® (of mantras).