FOOD OFFERINGS ON THE SEVENTH DAY - မတကဘတၱ

FOOD OFFERINGS ON THE SEVENTH DAY AFTER THE DEMISE OF A PERSON Matakabhatta

မတကဘတၱ -  မတကဘတ္၊ ရက္လည္ဆြမ္း၊ သပိတ္သြတ္ဆြမ္း။

တစ္စုံတစ္ဦး ေသလြန္၍ ခုႏွစ္ရက္ေျမာက္ေသာေန႕တြင္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္တုိ႔သည္ ေသဆုံးသူအားရည္စူး၍ သာဓုေခၚႏုိင္ေစရန္ သံဃာေတာ္တုိ႔အား ဆြမ္းကပ္၍ အမွ်ေ၀ၾကသည္။

Buddhists have a custom of making food offerings to the Saṁgha on the seventh day of the demise of a person in the hope that the departed one might gladly approve of the good deed saying, “Good! Good!”