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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Pitaras</b> (<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><a href="Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a></span> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r185776446">
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</style><span class="Latn" lang="sa-Latn" style="font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">pitaras</span> „die Väter“), auch <b>Pitris</b> (von <span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><a href="Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a></span> <span lang="sa-Deva" class="Deva" style="font-style:normal">पितृ</span> <span class="Latn" lang="sa-Latn" style="font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">pitṛ</span> „Vater“) bezeichnet in der <a href="Indische_Mythologie" title="Indische Mythologie">indischen Mythologie</a>:
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<ul><li>die Seelen der Vorfahren, denen zu bestimmter Zeit Wasser und Getreidebällchen (<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><a href="Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a></span> <span lang="sa-Deva" class="Deva" style="font-style:normal">पिण्ड</span> <span class="Latn" lang="sa-Latn" style="font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">piṇḍa</span>) geopfert werden,</li>
<li>die Söhne der Götter, die ihre Väter, die gegen <a href="Brahma" title="Brahma">Brahma</a> gesündigt hatten, mit Reue und Buße bekannt machten, und</li>
<li>die <a href="Prajapati" title="Prajapati">Prajapatis</a>, die zehn mythischen Vorfahren der Menschen.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><span class="IAST Latn">Pitris</span>.</i> In: <a href="John_Dowson" title="John Dowson">John Dowson</a>: <i>A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature.</i> Trübner & co., London 1879, S. 234–235 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/classicaldiction00dows/page/n259/mode/1up">Textarchiv – Internet Archive</a>).</li>
<li>Jan Knappert: <i>Lexikon der indischen Mythologie.</i> Heyne, München 1994, ISBN 3-453-07817-9, S. 238 f.</li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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