Markandeyapurana 32.6

32.6

tathaikādaśamāsaṃstu aurabhraṃ pitṛtṛptidam /
saṃvatsaraṃ tathā gavyaṃ payaḥ pāyasameva vā //

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.