Pitri
Americannoun
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Pitris,
plural
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Pitri
plural
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Etymology
Origin of Pitri
From the Sanskrit word pitṛ father
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Its object was in fact to raise the departed to the rank of a Pitri, and this had to be achieved by Srâddha offerings continued during a whole year.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
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
That Brahmana who becomes the Ritwik at a Sraddha constitutes himself, by that act, the 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
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
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
With fishes offered at Sraddhas, the Pitris remain gratified for a period of two months.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Besides the Devas or Gods, and besides the Pitris or Fathers, there was a third world, without which the ancient religion of India could not have become what we see it in the Veda.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
It is believed that the shrāddh ceremony is necessary to unite the dead man’s spirit with the Pitris or ancestors, and without this it wanders homeless.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
Originally the Rishis were the poets of the Vedas, seven in number; and we are not told how they came to be placed above the Devas and Pitris.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
It must be remembered that up to this time the Lemurian race consisted of the second and third groups of the Lunar Pitris.
From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot
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