Ehi bidhi dah kriya sab kinhi

Chaupai 3, Under Doha 170 · Ayodhya Kand

Chaupai Text

एहि बिधि दाह क्रिया सब कीन्ही। बिधिवत न्हाइ तिलांजुलि दीन्ही॥ सोधि सुमृति सब बेद पुराना। कीन्ह भरत दसगात बिधाना॥ ३ ॥

Transliteration (IAST)

ehi bidhi dāha kriyā saba kīnhī। bidhivata nhāi tilāṃjuli dīnhī॥ sodhi sumṛti saba beda purānā। kīnha bharata dasagāta bidhānā॥ 3 ॥

Meaning

In this way, all the funeral rites were performed, and everyone bathed in accordance with the rules and offered sesame-water oblations. Then, determining the verdict of the Vedas, Smritis, and Puranas, Bharat performed the ten-day ancestral rites.

Context

This is Chaupai 3, Under Doha 170 from Ayodhya Kand, in the episode “Bharata and Kaushalya, Dashrath's Funeral Rites”. The episode describes Bharata's grief-filled meeting with Kaushalya and King Dasharatha's funeral rites guided by sage Vashishtha.

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