[Advaita-l] An urgent query related to 13th day rites

[Srinath Vedagarbha]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:37 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:44 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> She can commission a purohit to officiate to perform the shraddham. In
> places like Varanasi, etc. women who have no male offspring engage the
> purohit to perform the shraaddham. The purohit does the sankalpa, takes the
> darbha grass from the woman and performs the shraaddham on her behalf.
>
>
Correct.

vEda do asserts that yajamAna prastara (this darbha grass is yajamAna).
Note that this is an identity statement. One cannot take literal meaning of
this statement and conclude chEtana yajamAna is same as jada grass. Because
of this kind of bAdha exists for  the shabda prastara's vAchyArtha, its
lakshyArtha should ONLY be considered.

/sv