Jatukarnya 1: Uddhṛtāni vacanāni

The twelve monthly [rites], the first [rite], likewise the two six-monthly [rites], / the three-fortnight [rite], and the annual [rite]: these are the sixteen śrāddhas.

The twelve monthly ones, the first, the two six-monthly, the three-fortnight and the yearly: these are the sixteen śrāddhas.

A śrāddha that is beyond three fortnights must occur on the very day of death; / below that, the wise man should have it performed [earlier] for a twice-born who has consecrated the sacred fires.

A śrāddha after three fortnights is to be on the day of death; a wise man should have it done before (that) for a twice-born man who kept the fires.

Tucking the hem outside the lower garment is considered demonic; / and in ritual acts, it must be carefully avoided by the wise.

A loin-cloth tucked in outside the lower garment is held to be demonic; the learned should carefully avoid it in a rite.

If an uninitiated boy should drink liquor through delusion, / his mother, brother, or father should perform three kṛcchra penances for him.

If an uninitiated boy drinks liquor by mistake, his mother, brother or father should perform three Kṛcchras for him.

The ancestors long for [food] waiting for the fifth fortnight; / therefore, offering must be given precisely then; what is given at another time is fruitless.

The ancestors long (for offerings) in the fifth fortnight (from Āṣāḍha); therefore one should give then; what is given elsewhere is fruitless.

When a father is abroad and there is neither news nor return, / after fifteen years, having made an effigy of him, / one should then perform his funeral rites according to the prescribed rule.

If one's father has gone abroad and there is no news and no return, after fifteen years he should make an effigy of him and perform his funeral rites by the prescribed rule.

In a śrāddha, oneself, a disciple, or a son should remove the vessels; / never by women, nor by a child, nor under any circumstances by one not of the same caste.

At a śrāddha the vessels are to be removed by (the performer) himself, a pupil or a son; never by women, a child or one of another class.

When birth-impurity has arisen, how should a Smārta rite be [done]? / One should have the piṇḍayajña, the oblation (caru), and the fire-offering performed by a person not belonging to the same gotra.

When birth-impurity occurs, how is the smārta rite to be done? He should have the rice-ball sacrifice, the pot of rice and the oblation performed by one of another gotra.

The puṃsavana should take place in the second or third month; / [or] it should be performed when the pregnancy becomes visible, or together with the sīmanta.

The rite for a male child is in the second or third month; or it may be done when the pregnancy is evident, or together with the parting of the hair.

Twice-born men must eat during the daytime alone when a śrāddha has been performed; / for otherwise the śrāddha becomes demonic, as it does when another's cooked food is consumed.

When the śrāddha has been performed, the twice-born must eat (its remains) that same day; otherwise the śrāddha becomes demonic, and also if another's cooking is eaten.

For sonless paternal uncles, brothers, and mothers as well, / and for a sonless maternal grandfather, the śrāddha and other rites should be performed like those for a father.

For sonless paternal uncles, brothers and mothers, and for a sonless maternal grandfather, the śrāddha and the rest are to be as for one's father.

One should give the ten gifts, beginning with the departure [of life], for the deceased: / a cow, land, sesame, gold, clarified butter, cloth, grain, and jaggery, / silver, and salt—these are said to be the ten gifts in order.

For a dying man one should give the ten gifts beginning with that at the departure: a cow, land, sesame, gold, ghee, clothes, grain, molasses, silver and salt — these they call the ten gifts in order.

A reddish-brown or black garment, or one that is soiled, defiled with hair, / or an upper cloth with frayed edges, is condemned in a righteous act.

A reddish-brown or black garment, a dirty one, one defiled by hair, an upper garment with torn edges: these are condemned in religious rites.

Stepped wells, wells, reservoirs and the like, temples, / the distribution of food, and a garden: this is designated as pūrta.

Ponds, wells, tanks and the like, temples, the gift of food and gardens are called pūrta (works of public merit).

Prior to the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, one should perform the sixteen śrāddhas.

Before the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa one should perform the sixteen śrāddhas.

Best of the twice-born call the new-moon day when the moon is waned "śaṅkha"; / and the aṣṭakā is a "padma"; what is given then is imperishable.

The best of the twice-born call the new moon, when the moon has waned, a 'conch' (treasure), and the aṣṭakā a 'lotus'; what is given then is likewise imperishable.