History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.551
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.551
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⁶⁷⁶ पूजनीयास्त्रयोऽतीता उपजीव्यास्त्रयोऽध्रतः । एतत्पुरुषसन्तानमृणयोः स्याच्चतुर्थकः॥ तपस्वी चाग्निहोत्री च ऋणवान् म्रियते यदि । तपश्चैवाग्निहोत्रं च सर्वं तद्धनिनां धनम् ॥ नारद IV. 6 and 9; पितॄणां सूनुभिर्जातैर्दानैर्नैवाधमर्णतात् । विमोक्षस्तु यतस्तस्मादिच्छन्ति पितरः सुतान् ॥ उद्धारादिकमादाय स्वामिने न ददाति यः। स तस्य दासो भृत्यः स्त्री पशुर्वा जायते गृहे ॥ कात्या. 551, 591, quoted by Sm. C. pp 168 and 161, परा. मा III. pp. 261 and 263, व्य. प्र. p. 277. Dr. Jolly's translation of Nār. IV. 6 (S. B. E. 33, p. 43) 'three must be reverenced before the rest' does not seem to be correct. What Nār. means is that a man has to offer worship in śrāddha to three ancestors while he himself depends upon (*upajīvyāstrayaḥ*) his three descendants for the piṇḍa (they offer). Upajīvya does not mean 'to be reverenced' but 'to be subsisted on'. The Sm. C. II. p. 161 notes that the verse 'tapasvī &c.' (Nār. IV. 9) occurs in a Purāṇa.