Matsya Purana — Chapter 19

MtP 19.1

कथं कव्यानि देयानि हव्यानि च जनैरिह गच्छन्ति पितृलोकस्थान् प्रापकः को ऽत्र गद्यते

kathaṃ kavyāni deyāni havyāni ca janairiha gacchanti pitṛlokasthān prāpakaḥ ko 'tra gadyate

How are the offerings to the dead and the offerings to the gods to be given by people here? How do they reach those who dwell in the world of the fathers? Who is said in this matter to be the conveyer?

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MtP 19.2

यदि मर्त्यो द्विजो भुङ्क्ते हूयते यदि वानले शुभाशुभात्मकैः प्रेतैर् दत्तं तद्भुज्यते कथम्

yadi martyo dvijo bhuṅkte hūyate yadi vānale śubhāśubhātmakaiḥ pretair dattaṃ tadbhujyate katham

If a mortal brahmin eats it, or if it is poured into the fire, how is what has been given eaten by the departed, who are of good or evil nature?

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MtP 19.3

वसून्वदन्ति च पितॄन् रुद्रांश्चैव पितामहान् प्रपितामहांस्तथादित्यान् इत्येवं वैदिकी श्रुतिः

vasūnvadanti ca pitṝn rudrāṃścaiva pitāmahān prapitāmahāṃstathādityān ityevaṃ vaidikī śrutiḥ

They call the fathers the Vasus, the grandfathers the Rudras, and the great-grandfathers the Ādityas — such is the Vedic teaching.

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MtP 19.4

नाम गोत्रं पितॄणां तु प्रापकं हव्यकव्ययोः श्राद्धस्य मन्त्राः श्रद्धा च उपयोज्यातिभक्तितः

nāma gotraṃ pitṝṇāṃ tu prāpakaṃ havyakavyayoḥ śrāddhasya mantrāḥ śraddhā ca upayojyātibhaktitaḥ

But it is the name and the gotra of the fathers that conveys the offerings to gods and to the dead; and the mantras of the śrāddha, and faith, are to be employed with the utmost devotion.

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MtP 19.5

अग्निष्वात्तादयस्तेषाम् आधिपत्ये व्यवस्थिताः नामगोत्रकालदेशा भवान्तरगतानपि

agniṣvāttādayasteṣām ādhipatye vyavasthitāḥ nāmagotrakāladeśā bhavāntaragatānapi

The Agniṣvāttas and the rest are established in lordship over them; name, gotra, time and place (reach the fathers) even when they have passed into another existence —

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MtP 19.6

प्राणिनः प्रीणयन्त्येते तदाहारत्वमागतान् देवो यदि पिता जातः शुभकर्मानुयोगतः

prāṇinaḥ prīṇayantyete tadāhāratvamāgatān devo yadi pitā jātaḥ śubhakarmānuyogataḥ

— these gladden the living beings who have come to have that as their food. If the father has been born a god, through the connection of his good deeds,

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MtP 19.7

तस्यान्नममृतं भूत्वा दिव्यत्वे ऽप्यनुगच्छति दैत्यत्वे भोगरूपेण पशुत्वे च तृणं भवेत्

tasyānnamamṛtaṃ bhūtvā divyatve 'pyanugacchati daityatve bhogarūpeṇa paśutve ca tṛṇaṃ bhavet

his food, becoming nectar, follows him even in the divine state; in the state of a Daitya it (follows him) in the form of enjoyments, and in the animal state it becomes grass.

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MtP 19.8

श्राद्धान्नं वायुरूपेण सर्पत्वे ऽप्युपतिष्ठति पानं भवति यक्षत्वे राक्षसत्वे तथामिषम्

śrāddhānnaṃ vāyurūpeṇa sarpatve 'pyupatiṣṭhati pānaṃ bhavati yakṣatve rākṣasatve tathāmiṣam

The śrāddha-food attends him even in the state of a serpent, in the form of wind; in the state of a Yakṣa it becomes drink, and in the state of a Rākṣasa, flesh.

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MtP 19.9

दनुजत्वे तथा माया प्रेतत्वे रुधिरोदकम् मनुष्यत्वे ऽन्नपानानि नानाभोगरसं भवेत्

danujatve tathā māyā pretatve rudhirodakam manuṣyatve 'nnapānāni nānābhogarasaṃ bhavet

In the state of a Dānava it becomes magic power, in the state of a preta, water of blood; in the human state it becomes food and drink, the savour of manifold enjoyments.

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MtP 19.10

रतिशक्तिः स्त्रियः कान्ता भोज्यं भोजनशक्तिता दानशक्तिः सविभवा रूपमारोग्यमेव च

ratiśaktiḥ striyaḥ kāntā bhojyaṃ bhojanaśaktitā dānaśaktiḥ savibhavā rūpamārogyameva ca

The power of sexual enjoyment, women, a beloved wife, food and the capacity to eat it, the power to give together with wealth, beauty, and health as well —

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MtP 19.11

श्रद्धा पुष्पमिदं प्रोक्तं फलं ब्रह्मसमागमः आयुः पुत्रान् धनं विद्यां स्वर्गं मोक्षं सुखानि च

śraddhā puṣpamidaṃ proktaṃ phalaṃ brahmasamāgamaḥ āyuḥ putrān dhanaṃ vidyāṃ svargaṃ mokṣaṃ sukhāni ca

Faith is said to be the flower here, the fruit is union with brahman; and (they grant) long life, sons, wealth, learning, heaven, liberation, and pleasures —

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MtP 19.12

राज्यं चैव प्रयच्छन्ति प्रीताः पितृगणा नृणाम् श्रूयते च पुरा मोक्षं प्राप्ताः कौशिकसूनवः पञ्चभिर्जन्मसम्बन्धैर् गता विष्णोः परं पदम्

rājyaṃ caiva prayacchanti prītāḥ pitṛgaṇā nṛṇām śrūyate ca purā mokṣaṃ prāptāḥ kauśikasūnavaḥ pañcabhirjanmasambandhair gatā viṣṇoḥ paraṃ padam

and kingship too the ancestral hosts, when pleased, bestow upon men. And it is heard that formerly the sons of Kauśika attained liberation: through the connection of five births they went to the highest station of Viṣṇu.

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