Pārvaṇas
Pārvaṇa · pārvaṇa, “those of the parva”
The Pārvaṇas are the mūrtimat (embodied) class of the pitṛ-devatās. They are not the pārvaṇa-śrāddha, though they share its name.
In his teaching on śrāddha, Vyāsa tells the munis that after the year of monthly śrāddhas for one who has died, the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa is performed by the pārvaṇa procedure, and from then the jīva leaves the state of a preta and attains the state of a pitṛ-devatā. The pitṛ-devatās are of two kinds, amūrta (formless) and mūrtimat (embodied): the Nāndīmukhas are amūrta, and the Pārvaṇas are mūrtimat.
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 220