tarpana
तर्पण tarpaṇaA libation; the offering of liquid to satisfy a deity, ancestor, or the powers of a yantra.
Where this term appears
- Purascharana Treatise
The fifteen-lakh japa requires 1,50,000 homa oblations. Tarpana - the water offering.
- The power in the phoneme Treatise
…na , jīvana , tāḍana , bodhana , abhiṣeka , vimalīkaraṇa , āpyāyana , tarpaṇa , dīpana , gupti .
- The debt to the dead Treatise
Tarpana is the third, and the simplest: the libation of water, poured out with sesame and sacred kusha grass and the murmuring of names, "to satisfy" the dead, to quench the thirst of the ancestors and refresh …