[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Vaishnava Dharmashastra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu) › 67.23 # Vaishnava Dharmashastra 67.23 Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 67.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [67.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67.23) tato dakṣiṇāgreṣu darbheṣu pitre pitāmahāya prapitāmahāya mātre pitāmahyai prapitāmahyai nāmagotrābhyāṃ ca piṇḍanirvāpaṇaṃ kuryāt || > Afterwards he must offer upon blades of Kusa grass, having the points turned towards the south, balls of rice to his father, to his grandfather, and to his great-grandfather, to his mother, to his grandmother, and to his great-grandmother, proclaiming at the same time their name and race (and adding the word Svadhâ, 'reverence'). > — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu - [Previous: 67.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67.22) - [Next: 67.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67.24) - [Up: 67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67) ## Translations (1) - [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.67.23) — Julius Jolly 1880, English ## Commentaries (2) - [Keśavavaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita, Sanskrit - [Vaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita-alias-vinayakapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita alias Vināyakapaṇḍita, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.67.23) · Pramāṇa