Veda · Krishna Yajurveda
Taittiriya Samhita
The core Samhita of the Krishna Yajurveda; states the three debts a person is born owing, to the sages, the gods and the ancestors, the Vedic root of runanubandha.
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Appears in
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
There is a passage in the Taittiriya Samhita , at 6.3.10.5, that states it as a structural fact of birth.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
The tradition treats the debt to the ancestors, *pitri-rina*, as primary among a person's obligations, discharged through progeny and through *shraddha*, the rite…