[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Markandeyapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) › 32.2 # Markandeyapurana 32.2 Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 32.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32.2) māsaṃ pitṝṇāṃ tṛptiśca haviṣyānnena jāyate / māsadvayaṃ matsyamāṃsaistṛptiṃ yānti pitāmahāḥ // > The pitṛs are satisfied with clarified butter and rice for a month. The paternal grandfathers receive satisfaction with fish-meat for two months. Venison should be known to satisfy the pitṛs for three months; and the flesh of hares nourishes the pitṛs for four months; birds’ flesh satisfies them for five months; hog’s flesh for six months; goat’s flesh for seven months; and flesh of the black antelope\[2\] for eight months; flesh of the rurn deer gives them satisfaction for nine months, without doubt; flesh of the gayal\[3\] gives them satisfaction for ten months. Moreover sheep’s flesh\[4\] satisfies the pitṛs for eleven months; and milk of kine or anything made of milk satisfies them a year. Flesh of the rhinoceros, flesh of the red-goat, the dark tulsi plant,\[5\] and honey, and flesh of the rhinoceros\[6\] and whatever else is given by members of their own family, and turmeric and soma juice, and a śrāddha performed at Gayā without doubt yield the pitṛs endless satisfaction. Śyāmāka\[7\] grain and rāja-śyāmāka\[8\] grain, and likewise small-grained rice,\[9\] wild rice,\[10\] and pauṣkala grain, these among grain tend to satisfy the pitṛs. > — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa - [Previous: 32.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32.1) - [Next: 32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32.3) - [Up: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32) ## Translations (2) - [The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-pargiter.32.p3) — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-mt.32.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.32.2) · Pramāṇa