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पितापुत्रीय (pitAputrIya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पिता—पु°त्रीय
mfn.
relating to and (with सम्प्रदान
n.
transmission of bodily capacities and powers from to s°),
L.
containing the words पितृ and पुत्र,
Anup.
Vedic Reference
English
Pitā-putrīya (‘relating to father and son’), used with Sam-
pradāna (‘handing over’) means the ceremony by which a
father, when about to die, bequeathes his bodily and mental
powers to his son. It is described in the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad.^1
1) ii. 15. Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 408.