pitri-rina
पितृऋण pitri-rinaThe debt to the ancestors, discharged through progeny and the shraddha rite; the primary of the three or five debts.
Where this term appears
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
It is the pitri-rina , the debt to the ancestors, the dead who gave you a body and a line and to whom the living remain bound.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
The last chapter named the pitri-rina , the debt to the fathers, as one of the three debts a person is born owing.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
…aid by the study of the sacred word; and a debt to the ancestors, the pitri-rina , repaid by continuing the line, by begetting the next generation, and by faithfully performing the rites for those who have died…