The five debts a person is born owing: to the sages, the gods, the ancestors, fellow humans, and all creatures (the pancha-maha-yajna tradition; Shatapatha Brahmana 11.5.6, Manusmriti 3.70).

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• Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise →

  …care for them, so that the tradition came to speak of five debts, the pancha-rina .

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