Manava Dharmashastra 3.265

3.265

yadyaditi vīpsāyāṃ apratiṣiddhaṃ sarvamannamanujānāti | vidhivat samyakśabdānuvādaḥ | śraddhāsamanvita ityetadatra vidhīyate | śraddhayā dātavyam | tathā dattamannantamakṣayaṃ bhavati pitṝṇāṃ paraloke | anantamiti vā kālāvadhiniṣedhaḥ | akṣayamiti mātrayā vyayābhāvamāha | sarvakālaṃ bhavati prabhūtaṃ ca |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Whatever.’—This term sanctions the offering of everything, not actually prohibited.

‘According to rule’ is a reiteration of what has been said by means of the term, ‘in the right manner.’

‘Endowed with faith’— This is what is actually prescribed in the present verse:—‘one should make the offering with due faith.’

What is given in this manner ‘becomes endless and inexhaustible for the Pitṛs in the other world.’ ‘Endless’ may be taken as denying all limitation of time;—‘Inexhaustible’ denies non-diminishing of quantity; the sense being ‘it lasts for all time and becomes large in quantity.’—(275)