Manava Dharmashastra 3.208

3.208

yata eva pātrādudakena prākpiṇḍadānāddabhaiṣūdakaninayanaṃ kṛtaṃ tata eva punarniṃnayanaṃ piṇḍāntike piṇḍasamīpe kartavyamiti | śeṣagrahaṇaṃ pratipattyarthaṃ tasyodakasya | tathāhi śeṣaśabda upapanno bhavati | ataśca kathañcittasyābhāve nāsti punarniṃnayanam | gṛhye tu ‘nityaṃ ninayanami’tyuktam | avajighrecca tān piṇḍān | avaghrāṇaṃ gandhopalabdhiḥ | gṛhye tu ‘‘caroḥ prāśmannaṃ bhakṣayet’’ ityuktam | yathānyuptān yena krameṇa nirūptān pitre pitāmahāya prapitāmahāyati | samāhita iti ślokapūraṇam |

The remaining water he should gently pour near the balls; and with collected mind he should smell those halls in the order in which they were offered.—(218).

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
Water should be poured again near the balls, out of the same vessel from which it had been poured upon the kuśa-blades, before the offering or the balls.

‘Remaining’;—this is meant to show that, the net mentioned is to be regarded as the ‘disposal of remnants;’ it is only in this sense that the term ‘remaining’ becomes justifiable. From this it follows that, in the event of there being no ‘remnant,’ there shall be no ‘pouring.’ But in the Gṛhyasūtra, it has been declared that this ‘pouring of water’ is obligatory.

‘He should smell these balls;’—‘smelling,’ consists of eeling the odour; but in the Gṛhyasūtra it is said that ‘he should eat it with his breath.’

‘in the order in which they were offered,’—the order in which they were offered being, first to the father, second to the grandfather, and third to the great-grandfather;—‘with collected mind’—this is for filling up the metre.—(218.)