rina-traya
ऋणत्रय ṛṇatrayaThe three debts a person is born owing, named in the Taittiriya Samhita: to the gods, repaid by sacrifice; to the sages, by study; and to the ancestors, by continuing the line and performing their rites.
Where this term appears
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
A person, it says, is born owing three debts, the rina-traya : a debt to the sages, repaid by study of the sacred word; a debt to the gods, repaid by sacrifice; and a debt to the ancestors, repaid by begetting …
- The debt to the dead Treatise
The Vedic texts speak of three debts, the rina-traya , that come with the fact of being born at all.