🚧This site is under construction — data is currently being added and may be incomplete or change.🚧
🕉

Sanatan Dharma

सनातन धर्म — Hindu Scripture Knowledge Base

Ayodhya Kanda 108.14

Valmiki Ramayanam (IIT Kanpur) · Ayodhya Kanda 108 · Verse 14

valmiki-ramayanakanda-2sarga-108ayodhya

Sanskrit Original

अष्टका पितृदैवत्यमित्ययं प्रसृतो जनः। अन्नस्योपद्रवं पश्य मृतो हि किमशिष्यति।।

aṣṭakā pitṛdaivatyamityayaṅ prasṛtō janaḥ. annasyōpadravaṅ paśya mṛtō hi kimaśiṣyati৷৷

🤖 AI GeneratedAI Generated

People perform ashtaka ceremony for the spirits of ancestors and offer them food. Look at the amount of food being wasted. Will the dead (ever) eat food?