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Translation of Maricismriti (Marīcismṛti)
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- 24 passages, 803 words
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- pramana-mt · Machine translation by Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-10-21) of in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.maricismrti*fragments · Machine output without human authorship: no copyright is claimed (CC0 1.0). The original text keeps its own…
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- 1 — 24 parts
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1.1
For those killed by poison, weapons, wild animals, or snakes, or who were killed by animals or by brāhmaṇas, / the rite is to be performed on the fourteenth day [of the fortnight]; for others, however, it is condemned.
1.2
The new moon of the month of Nabhas—on that [day] the gathering of darbha grass is prescribed; / those darbha grasses are not rendered stale, and may be employed again and again.
1.3
In the case of salt, honey, and meat, and in the case of flowers, roots, and fruits, / in the case of vegetables, firewood, grass, and water, and in the case of curd, clarified butter, and milk, // and in the case of sesame, herbs, and hides, taking cooked or uncooked [food] oneself, / and among all merchandise—there is no impurity upon death or birth.
1.4
When an obstacle to a śrāddha has arisen, or when the day of death is unknown, / it should be performed on the eleventh day, especially in the dark fortnight.
1.5
Upon birth and death, [the impurity is] for three nights for the two prior spouses; / for sapiṇḍas, however, it is one day where [others have] three nights.
1.6
It should be given with an open hand; one should not show a mudrā there. / Sesame seeds should be held in the left hand, having released the right hand.
1.7
Not outside the knees, not in haste, not seated on a seat, nor standing, / not wearing sandals, not absent-minded, pure, of restrained mind, // having sipped water, a twice-born man becomes constantly clean and purified.
1.8
A son who is of the same gotra or of another gotra according to rule / should first offer the piṇḍa and the śrāddha ritual to the owner of the field (kṣetrin), / and then afterward to the bearer of the seed (bījin).
1.9
The śrāddha which [is performed] every month on the day of death, and every year, / and at the beginning of a manvantara and at the beginning of a yuga, and also in both months—
1.10
If the tithi of the annual rite extends over two afternoons, / the great sages praise that [day] which is conjoined with it when it is greater.
1.11
Whatever fruit is declared for a śrāddha during the lunar mansions beginning with Kṛttikā, / that very fruit is desired during the astrological yogas beginning with Viṣkambha.
1.12
One who maintains no sacred fire, one who is on a journey, and one whose wife is menstruating / should perform a raw-grain śrāddha (āmaśrāddha); he should not perform that on the day of death.
1.13
A girl given with the pouring of water, but not actually handed over, / is to be known as unconsecrated; [an impurity of] three nights is remembered for both [families].
1.14
Sacrificial sticks should be offered with their tips pointing east, and unsplit in rites for desired ends; / and in rites for desired ends they should be with branches and fresh; opposite for one who wishes to slay. // Those that are decayed, split, short, crooked, hollow, thin, / long, thick, or infested with wood-worms destroy the success of the rite.
1.15
On the seventh tithi, on Sunday, and likewise at home on one's birthday, / one who desires servants, sons, and a wife should not perform a libation with sesame.
1.16
I shall declare the deities in regular order, each belonging to which: / Varuṇa is the deity in [the cow's] urine, the carrier of oblations (Agni) in cow dung; / Soma is declared in milk, Vāyu in curd, and Ravi in clarified butter.
1.17
At the invocation and at the uttering of "svadhā", mantras are to be adapted (ūhya), and at the dismissal; / in the rites of food, they should not be adapted: [such] is remembered as the rule for the raw-grain śrāddha.
1.18
Upon miscarriage, [the impurity] of the mother corresponds to the number of months; for the father and others, it is three days.
1.19
Upon miscarriage, [the impurity] corresponds to the number of months, but if recently [conceived], three days for the highest [varṇa]; / for a kṣatriya, four nights; for a vaiśya, five days; / and by eight days for a śūdra is this purification proclaimed.
1.20
Giving a gaurī, one attains heaven; giving a rohiṇī, Vaikuṇṭha; / giving a kanyā, the world of Brahmā; but [giving] a menstruating girl, Raurava hell.
1.21
That which is offered with faith, designating the deceased and the ancestors, / of food pleasing to oneself—that is declared to be a śrāddha.
1.22
One whose ears are unpierced, one who is black, and likewise one with long ears— / [these] brāhmaṇas are to be avoided with effort in the rite of śrāddha.
1.23
When an obstacle to a śrāddha arises for twice-born men, a raw-grain śrāddha is prescribed, / fixed for the new moon and other occasions, except for the monthly and annual rites.
1.24
Whether standing on the ground or drawn up, whether cold or warm, / the water of the Gaṅgā purifies sin right up to the end of life.