Karshnajinismriti 1: Uddhṛtāni vacanāni

As many [ancestors] as are excluded by the father, with that many [generations] should an adopted son and others / perform the union of the deceased spirits with their own ancestors.

As many as are without (their own) ancestors (in the line), adopted sons and the like should join the departed with their own ancestors.

At the Upākarma and the Utsarga, assembling at the proper time, / having made the ṛṣis out of darbha grass, one should worship [them] and then offer libations.

At the opening and closing of the Veda-term, gathering at the proper time, they should make the seers of darbha grass, worship them and offer libations to them.

The three-fortnight rite should take place in the third fortnight, and the others on the days of death.

The three-fortnight śrāddha is (to be done) in the third fortnight, the others on the days (corresponding to) the death.

Whether at the beginning, middle, or end [thereof] the sun enters Virgo, / that entire fortnight is worthy of worship with respect to the sixteen śrāddhas.

The fortnight in which the sun enters Virgo, at its beginning, middle or end, is wholly to be honoured for the sixteen śrāddhas.

One should never begin a śrāddha on the thirteenth lunar day for a single class [of ancestors]; / those among them who are not gratified there injure the offspring of that [sacrificer].

One should not begin a śrāddha for one group (of ancestors) on the thirteenth: those not satisfied there harm the offspring of him whose (ancestors) they are.

Sanaka, Sananda, and the third, Sanātana, / Kapila, Āsuri, Voḍhu, and also Pañcaśikha— / these seven mind-born sons of Brahmā are declared to be human beings.

Sanaka, Sananda, the third Sanātana, Kapila, Āsuri, Voḍhu and Pañcaśikha: these seven sons of Brahmā are called the 'men' (in the libations).

At the birth of a son or a daughter, [and] at an eclipse of the moon or the sun, / having bathed, one should immediately gratify one's own ancestors with a śrāddha.

At the birth of a son or daughter and at an eclipse of moon or sun, one should bathe and then satisfy one's ancestors with a śrāddha.

A son possessing the sacred fire should perform the sapindīkaraṇa as before; / if beyond ten nights, on the new-moon day, [while] another [does it] after a year.

A son who keeps the fires should perform the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa as before, if after ten nights on the new moon; the other at the end of the year.

Those who, through delusion or even through ignorance, perform [rites] on a new-moon day / pierced by the fourteenth lunar day in a śrāddha ritual, their life diminishes.

Those who, through delusion or ignorance, take a new moon joined to the fourteenth for a śrāddha lose their life-span.

At a marriage, [the investiture of] vows, and tonsure, for a year, half [a year], and half of that, / one should not perform the offering of rice-balls, bathing with clay, or libations with sesame.

After a wedding, a vow or a tonsure, for a year, half a year and a quarter respectively, one should not give rice-balls, bathe with earth or offer libations with sesame.

Whatever was pleasing to him while living, that one should diligently give to him; / gratified, he then traverses the impassable path, without doubt.

What was dear to him while he lived one should carefully give him; satisfied, he then goes the hard road without doubt.

Even in times of distress, one should never perform an annual [śrāddha] with raw [grain] anywhere; / [one must perform it] with cooked food, or in its absence, [on an auspicious day or] on the dark eleventh day of Hari.

Even in distress one should never perform the annual śrāddha with uncooked food; with cooked food, or failing that on the dark fortnight's Hari-day.

At the parting of the hair, and indeed upon seeing the face of a first-born son, / the householder, being restrained, should worship the classes of ancestors facing the festive rites.

At the parting of the hair and on first seeing the face of a son and the like, the householder should reverently worship the joyful-faced ancestors.