Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitaras
Literary usage of Pitaras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda: Containing the Earliest Speculations by Bombay (India : State). Educational Dept, Martin Haug (1863)
"For the pitaras (present) at the morning libation, are the Umas, those (present)
at the ... In this way he makes the immortal pitaras enjoy the libations. ..."
2. Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago by Reinhold Rost (1887)
"General feasts of the gods and pitaras are celebrated on Galungan, and in the
five succeeding weeks (see "Us. Bali"). At this time the gods are supposed to ..."
3. Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity by Lewis Bayles Paton (1921)
"In connection with the offering of food to ancestors in India the sacrificer
prays: "Honour, pitaras, for your comfort, honour for your living sap, ..."
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