Laugakshismriti 1: Uddhṛtāni vacanāni

Having performed the rite of the end of the half-month, one who maintains the sacred fires [performs] the vaiśvadeva offering;

One who keeps the fires, having performed the rite at the end of the fortnight and the offering to all the gods …

Whatever ghaṭikās of the subsequent lunar day are deficient, or likewise in excess— / half of them is to be subtracted or added respectively, upon its decrease or increase, on the first day.

Of the ghaṭikās by which the following lunar day is shorter or longer, half is to be subtracted or added on the first day, in decrease and in increase.

They know three parts to belong to the day of fasting, and four to the sacrifice; / one should omit the last two parts in sacrifice and in the performance of a vow.

They know three parts (of the moon-change day) as belonging to the preparatory fast and four to the sacrifice; he should leave out the last two parts in the sacrifice and in the vow.

One should perform the annual [śrāddha] only with cooked food, or with gold, never with raw grain.

The annual śrāddha is to be performed with cooked food, or with gold, never with uncooked food.

If the parvan ends in the forenoon or at midday, / having fasted on the previous day, the sacrifice is desired on that [very] day. // If the parvan ends in the afternoon or at night, / having fasted on that day, the sacrifice is desired on the next day.

If the moon-change ends in the forenoon or at midday, one fasts on the day before and the sacrifice is on that day; if it ends in the afternoon or at night, one fasts on that day and the sacrifice is on the next.

Sinīvālī is to be observed by twice-born men who maintain the fires in rites for the ancestors; / Kuhū is to be observed by women, by Śūdras, and likewise by twice-born men without fires.

For rites to the ancestors the twice-born who keep the fires should take the Sinīvālī (new moon), women, Śūdras and twice-born without fires the Kuhū.

On the day of death, the offering of the rice-ball is combined [or] separate; / but the new śrāddha [is combined] only when the husband and wife ascend the funeral pyre together.

When husband and wife die together, (the śrāddha) on the day of death is joint, but the rice-balls separate; and so the 'new' śrāddhas.

Those who see the truth say that kṣema is pūrta, and yoga is iṣṭa; / and those two are declared indivisible, as are the bed and seat.

Those who see the truth call works of public benefit kṣema and sacrifices yoga; both are declared indivisible, as are bed and seat.

Ardhādhāna is traditionally remembered as the separation of the Śrauta and Smārta fires; / Sarvādhāna is their unification, which belongs to an earlier age.

Keeping the Vedic and smārta fires separate is called 'half-establishment'; making them one is 'whole-establishment', which belongs to the former ages.

The first feeding of solid food [takes place] in the sixth [month], or when the teeth have appeared.

The first feeding in the sixth month, or when the teeth have appeared.

In the absence of everyone [else], wives may themselves perform the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa for their own husbands without mantras, / and thereafter the pārvaṇa [śrāddha].

When there is no one else, the wives themselves should perform the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa of their husbands without mantras, and then the pārvaṇa śrāddha.