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Karshnajinismriti 1

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1.1

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.

1.2

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.

1.3

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

1.4

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.

1.5

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].

1.6

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.

1.7

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.

1.8

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.

1.9

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.

1.10

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.

1.11

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

1.12

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.

1.13

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.

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