Markandeyapurana 31.13

31.13

bhuktvā cācāmatāṃ yacca jalaṃ yaccāṅghrisecane /
brāhmaṇānāṃ tathaivānye tena tṛptiṃ prayānti vai //

“Now truly those ancestors who have become piśacas obtain satisfaction from the food that men scatter on the ground. Those ancestors, my son, who have become trees, receive satisfaction from the water that drips from the bathing garment on the ground. But the drops of water, that fall from the limbs on the ground, minister nourishment to those ancestors in the family who have attained divinity. And when the piṇḍas are taken up, the particles of food that fall on the earth,— those ancestors in the family who have become animals gain nourishment therefrom. The children moreover in the family who, being capable of performing religious ceremonies but not having undergone the purificatory rites, are burnt on their death, they in their distress subsist on the scattering of the food and the water used in scouring. And the water, both that which is used by brahmans for rinsing out the month after meals, and that which is used ly them for sprinkling the feet,—the other ancestors likewise gain satisfaction indeed therefrom. So whatever water and food is scattered by the celebrant and by those dvijas, whether it he unsullied or fragmentary, that, my child, in the family of those who duly perform the śrāddhas, nourishes the other ancestors who have been born among the several creations. With the śrāddhas, which men perform with ill-gotten wealth, are satisfied those ancestors wha have been born as caṇḍālas, pukkaśas and other men of degraded castes.