त आत्मसर्गं तं कायं पितर: प्रतिपेदिरे । साध्येभ्यश्च पितृभ्यश्च कवयो यद्वितन्वते ॥ ४३ ॥
ta atma-sargam tam kayam pitarah pratipedire sadhyebhyas ca pitrbhyas ca kavayo yad vitanvate
- te
- they
- atma-sargam
- source of their existence
- tam
- that
- kayam
- body
- pitarah
- the Pitas
- pratipedire
- accepted
- sadhyebhyah
- to the Sadhyas
- ca
- and
- pitrbhyah
- to the Pitas
- ca
- also
- kavayah
- those well versed in rituals
- yat
- through which
- vitanvate
- offer oblations.
The Pitas themselves took possession of the invisible body, the source of their existence. It is through the medium of this invisible body that those well versed in the rituals offer oblations to the Sadhyas and Pitas (in the form of their departed ancestors) on the occasion of sraddha.