Pitri
Americannoun
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Pitris,
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Pitri
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Etymology
Origin of Pitri
From the Sanskrit word pitṛ father
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The sense, as explained by the commentator, is this: the Brahmana who becomes the Ritwik and eats at a Sraddha becomes a Pitri of the person performing the Sraddha.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
In the Aryan group of languages, the bond of affinity is easily recognisable: the roots of the words are the same: Pitri, pater, vater, are clearly but varying pronunciations of the same word.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
The Pitri sacrifice of the high-souled Bhishma was then duly performed.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Here the Rishi, by only giving directions to the Sudra as to how the Pitri rites were to be performed, became a Sudra-yajin.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Again, the conception of patrons or Pitris to each family and tribe naturally led to the idea of a Providence over all; and so the Pitri begat the Deva.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
In the Veda the Pitris, or fathers, are invoked together with the Devas, or gods, but they are not confounded with them.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
The srâddha performed when the recently-departed has been incorporated among the Pitris.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
The Devas sprung from the Pitris, because it was usual to apotheosize the dead.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
The constant influx, too, of more intelligent beings from the first group of the Lunar Pitris, who were then beginning to return to incarnation, helped the attainment of a more civilised state.
From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot
Such offerings gratify neither the gods nor the Pitris.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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