अथातः पितापुत्रीयं सम्प्रदानमिति चाचक्षते । पिता पुत्रं प्रेष्यन्नाह्वयति नवैस्तृणैरगारं संस्तीर्याग्निमुपसमाधायोदकुम्भं सपात्रमुपनिधायाहतेन वाससा सम्प्रच्छन्नः स्वयं श्येत एत्य पुत्र उपरिषटादभिनिपद्यते, इन्द्रियैरस्येन्द्रियाणि संस्पृश्यापि वास्याभिमुखत एवासीताथास्मै संप्रयच्छति वाचं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता वाचं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः प्राणं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता प्राणं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । चक्षुर्मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता चक्षुस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । श्रोत्रं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता श्रोत्रं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । मनो मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता मनस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । अन्नरसान्मे त्वयि दधानीति पितान्नरसांस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । कर्माणि मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता कर्माणि ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । सुखदुःखे मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता सुखदुःखे ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । आनन्दं रतिं प्रजातिं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता आनन्दं रतिं प्रजातिं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । इत्या मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता इत्या ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । धियो विज्ञातव्यं कामान्मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता धियो विज्ञातव्यं कामांस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः । अथ दक्षिणावुत्प्राङुपनिष्क्रामति तं पितानुमन्त्रयते यशो ब्रह्मवर्चसमन्नाद्यं कीर्तिस्त्वा जुषतामित्यथेतरः सव्यमंसमन्ववेक्षते पाणिनान्तर्धाय वसनान्तेन वा प्रच्छाद्य स्वर्गांल्लोकान्कामानवाप्नुहीति स यद्यगदः स्यात्पुत्रस्यैश्वर्ये पिता वसेत्परि वा व्रजेद्यद्यु वै प्रेयाद्यदेवैनं समापयति तथा समापयितव्यो भवति तथा समापयितव्यो भवति
athātaḥ pitāputrīyaṃ sampradānamiti cācakṣate | pitā putraṃ preṣyannāhvayati navaistṛṇairagāraṃ saṃstīryāgnimupasamādhāyodakumbhaṃ sapātramupanidhāyāhatena vāsasā sampracchannaḥ svayaṃ śyeta etya putra upariṣaṭādabhinipadyate, indriyairasyendriyāṇi saṃspṛśyāpi vāsyābhimukhata evāsītāthāsmai saṃprayacchati vācaṃ me tvayi dadhānīti pitā vācaṃ te mayi dadha iti putraḥ prāṇaṃ me tvayi dadhānīti pitā prāṇaṃ te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | cakṣurme tvayi dadhānīti pitā cakṣuste mayi dadha iti putraḥ | śrotraṃ me tvayi dadhānīti pitā śrotraṃ te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | mano me tvayi dadhānīti pitā manaste mayi dadha iti putraḥ | annarasānme tvayi dadhānīti pitānnarasāṃste mayi dadha iti putraḥ | karmāṇi me tvayi dadhānīti pitā karmāṇi te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | sukhaduḥkhe me tvayi dadhānīti pitā sukhaduḥkhe te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | ānandaṃ ratiṃ prajātiṃ me tvayi dadhānīti pitā ānandaṃ ratiṃ prajātiṃ te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | ityā me tvayi dadhānīti pitā ityā te mayi dadha iti putraḥ | dhiyo vijñātavyaṃ kāmānme tvayi dadhānīti pitā dhiyo vijñātavyaṃ kāmāṃste mayi dadha iti putraḥ | atha dakṣiṇāvutprāṅupaniṣkrāmati taṃ pitānumantrayate yaśo brahmavarcasamannādyaṃ kīrtistvā juṣatāmityathetaraḥ savyamaṃsamanvavekṣate pāṇināntardhāya vasanāntena vā pracchādya svargāṃllokānkāmānavāpnuhīti sa yadyagadaḥ syātputrasyaiśvarye pitā vasetpari vā vrajedyadyu vai preyādyadevainaṃ samāpayati tathā samāpayitavyo bhavati tathā samāpayitavyo bhavati
Now — the rite of father and son, which is also called the handing-over. The father, departing, calls his son. Having strewn the house with fresh grass, laid the fire, set a jar of water with a cup, himself covered with an unworn garment, he lies down. The son, coming, lies upon him from above, touching his organs with his organs — or else sits facing him. And then the father hands over to him: “My speech I place in thee”, says the father. “Thy speech I take into me”, says the son. “My breath...” — “Thy breath...” — “My eye...” — “My ear...” — “My mind...” — “The tastes of food...” — “My deeds...” — “My pleasure and pain...” — “My bliss, delight and progeny...” — “My goings...” — “My thoughts, the knowable and my desires I place in thee”, says the father. “Thy thoughts, the knowable and thy desires I take into me”, says the son. Then, going round by the right, the son goes out eastward, and the father speaks after him: “May glory, the lustre of Brahman, plenty of food and good repute delight in thee.” And the other looks back over his left shoulder, screening himself with his hand or covering his face with the hem of his garment: “Obtain the heavenly worlds and all desires.” If the father recovers, let him dwell under the authority of his son, or let him wander forth. But if he departs, then as one must be furnished, so let him be furnished — so let him be furnished.
e6b00792043d · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 3:43:45 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The closing rite of the adhyāya — and the most human: a dying father hands his very self over to his son.
Everything is arranged as a sacrifice: fresh grass on the floor, a kindled fire, a jar of water, a new coverlet. But what is offered is neither ghee nor grain. The father lies down; the son bends over him from above, “touching his organs with his organs”: eye to eye, ear to ear, hand to hand. The transfer is made by the body, not by a will.
Then comes the litany of exchange, and its list should be set beside what Brahmā asked of the newcomer at the end of the first adhyāya: speech, breath, eye, ear, mind, the tastes of food, deeds, pleasure and pain, bliss and progeny, walking, thoughts and desires. The same list — and there it was the answer about how a man takes hold of the world. Here it is passed from hand to hand.
Remarkably, what is handed over includes what is usually left unspoken: “pleasure and pain”. The father gives the son not only his powers and property, but his capacity to suffer. The inheritance is described without embellishment.
The rite ends in parting, and the parting is marked by movements: the son goes out eastward, the father speaks a blessing after him, and the son looks back over his left shoulder, screened by his hand or the hem of his robe. One screens oneself so that the departing man's gaze should not rest on the one who stays; and yet one looks back, because to leave without looking back is impossible.
And last — the sobriety with which another outcome is provided for. “If the father recovers” — then he lives “under the authority of his son”, or wanders forth. The rite is irreversible: he who has given himself away cannot take himself back. Hence the two paths: to stay in a house where you are no longer master, or to renounce.
The doubled “so let him be furnished” sets the closing mark of the section; with it the second adhyāya ends.