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sapindikarana

सपिण्डीकरण sapiṇḍīkaraṇa

The rite, performed about the eleventh or twelfth day after death, by which the pinda of the newly dead is merged with those of the earlier ancestors, formally admitting the preta into the company of the pitris.

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  • Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials

    The rite that completes the passage is called sapindikarana, the "joining of the rice-balls," in which the offering for the new dead is merged with those for the earlier ancestors: the moment the preta is at la…

  • The debt to the dead Treatise

    …rn on the eleventh and twelfth days after a death, in the rite called Sapindikarana , when the newly built pinda of the recent dead is ritually merged with the pindas of the three ancestors before them.

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