Markandeyapurana 30.14

30.14

apasavyañca tatrāpi bhojayedayujo dvijān /
viśeṣastatra cānyo 'sti pratimāsaṃ kriyādhikaḥ //

“And there is another distinction, consisting in an extra ceremony every month; do thou listen attentive to me, as I tell thee of it, while it is being described. He should fill four vessels there with sesamum-seed, perfume and water, three for the pitṛs, one for the deceased person, my son. And he should scatter the arghya-oblation in the three vessels, and in the deceased’s vessel,[6] uttering the words ‘Ye samānā’ &c., he should perform the rest as before.

“And the śrāddha for a single deceased person should be performed on the day of the death; listen to that. And it should be performed omitting the offering to the gods, and with a single vessel. And the oblations-with-fire[5] should not be made in the fire without the ceremonies. And he should give one piṇḍa to the deceased person near the fragments of food, and sesamum-seed and water on the right, accompanying them with the recollection of that person’s name. ‘May he be exempt from decay,’ let the celebrant say, and ‘may enjoyment be his,’ let the others delighted say, at the place where the brāhmans are dismissed. Men must do this every month for a year. Now at the expiration of the year, or whenever the ceremony is performed by men, the śrāddha for deceased sapiṇḍas must be performed for him also: so the rule is stated; and that must he without the offering to the gods, and accompanied with a single argha offering in a single vessel. And that ceremony must not he performed there in the fire without offering the oblations-with-fire: and on the right there, he should feed the single dvijas.