ཚ་འཕ་བ་ཇ་ལྟར་འགྱར་བ་ཞས་པའ་མད notes.4

notes.4

4. On the four śrāddha-rites, see Sayers (2013), chapter 4. Brahmanical texts, like the Āpastamba Dharma­sūtra, advocate other offerings too, such as beans, barley, water, roots, fruits, cattle, buffalo, fish, and even rhinoceros. See Sayers (2013), pp. 107–8. Āpastamba’s list does not, however, seem to match the offerings of the family of Nandaja, viz., “horses, elephants, clothes, and a variety of ornaments, gold and silver, pearls, crystals, and other jewels, and a variety of delicious and sweet food and drink.”