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The ancestral beings who receive offerings and, in one strand of the Mahābhārata’s account of itself, their own recension of the epic. These pages treat the Pitṛs as recipients of sacred knowledge as well as of śrāddha.

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Asita Devala → Vidura and Vasudeva → Śukadeva and the Mahābhārata →

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Sanskrit sources with transliteration, translation, and verse-level commentary — read in full, free, and permanently linkable.

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Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

Vāmana Purāṇa

Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā

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