Manava Dharmashastra 3.237

3.237

pūrvasya vidherarthavādo'yam | uṣmā auṣṇyam |
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saṃsthitasya dvijāterāsapiṇḍakriyākarma prathamamṛtasya āsapiṇḍakaraṇākhyaṃ karma kartavyam | sahapiṇḍadānaṃ pūrvābhyāṃ na kartavyam | kathaṃ tarhi kartavyam | piṇḍamekaṃ ca nirvapediti | caśabda evaśabdasyārthe, tasmā eva pretāyaikaṃ piṇḍaṃ nirvapet | brāhmaṇo hi tasmā eva bhojayitavyaḥ | smṛtyantare anyā'pītikartavyatā vaiśeṣī smaryate 'āvāhanārgnau karaṇarahitamiti' | agnau karaṇaśabdena cātra 'agnau kariṣya' ityanujñāpanaṃ pratiṣidhyate, na punarhomaḥ | tathāhi gṛhye pretaśrāddhamevādhikṛtya homa āmnāyate | yasmiṃśca kāle karma kartavyaṃ yāvantaṃ ca kālaṃ tat smṛtyantarādanveṣṭavyam | 'ādyamekādaśe'hani' | "mṛtāhe'pi ca kartavyaṃ pratimāsaṃ tu vatsaram | pratisaṃvatsaraṃ caiva śrāddhaṃ vai māsikārthavat |" iti | tathā ca kāṭhake 'evaṃ sāṃvatsarikamiti' | ekādaśāhagrahaṇaṃ cāśaucanivṛttyupalakṣaṇārtham | yataḥ ‘śucirbhūtaḥ pitṛbhyo dadyāditi’ śrūyate | saṃvatsarānte hi sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ gṛhyakārāḥ smaranti | etacca śrāddhamekoddiṣṭaṃ tadaṅgabhūtaṃ ca nirvapaṇam | yatta śraute—pitṛbhyo dadyāditivacanāt pitṛpitāmahāya prapitāmahāya ceti--akṛte sapiṇḍīkaraṇe neha dānaṃ yuktam | na hi smṛtyā śrutirbādhituṃ śakyata iti |

How do you say that there is no such mention? We read in the Gṛhyasūtra—‘One ball alone shall not be offered to all,—this has been made clear by the term balls itself.’ Then again, it is said that ‘the cup dedicated to the deceased shall be poured into the cups dedicated to the Pitṛs;’ and if the cup of the deceased person were not distinct, from which cup could the water-offering be poured? If it be said that it would be poured out of the cup dedicated to all in common,—this would be highly improper; for that cup will have been dedicated to the three ancestors beginning with the grandfather, and not to the father (just dead); and it would not be proper to offer the water to the latter out of that which has been dedicated to others. It might be argued that the mixing up (laid down in the text just quoted) might be done after the water-offering has been made. But in that case, the said mixing would be done for the purposes of an entirely different offering; and this would be contrary to the injunction regarding the ‘pouring out,’ On the other hand, there is no incongruity in the method described by us above.