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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Thank you for the inputs...

On Wed 17 Oct, 2018, 9:42 PM Srinath Vedagarbha via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 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
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