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The Sruti declares that one's offspring is called putra because one is rescued by him. One's own self, again, takes birth as one's son. ""The father said, 'In form thou art like me. In conduct and in self-restraint also thou art my like. Thou hast been examined on various occasions by me.
The first half of the first line, in the Bengal texts, is read as 'Kathamascha me putra', the Bombay text reads 'Kathamascha me Yoddha'. If the latter reading be adopted, the meaning would be "Tell me how my warriors were," etc. etc. I think the correction a happy one. Some of the Bengal texts have Panchalanam for Pandavanam.
Through the grandson one obtains those regions repairing whither one has not to endure any kind of misery. Like the triple aggregate beginning with Religion, or the triple aggregate of sacred fires, there is a triple aggregate of everlasting Heavens, depending upon the son, the grandson, and the great-grandson. The son is called Putra because he frees his sires from debt.
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