[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vishnupurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) › 3.15.4 # Vishnupurana 3.15.4 Viṣṇupurāṇa 3.15.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.15.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15.4) etān niyojayec chrāddhe pūrvoktān prathamaṃ nṛpa brāhmaṇān pitṛpuṣṭyartham anukalpeṣv anantarān // > AURVA proceeded.--"Hear next, oh prince, what description of Brahman should be fed at ancestral ceremonies. he should be one studied in various triplets of the Rich and Yajur Vedas; one who is acquainted with the six supplementary sciences of the Vedas; one who understands the Vedas; one who practises the duties they enjoin; one who exercises penance; a chanter of the principal Sáma-veda, an officiating priest, a sister's son, a daughter's son, a son-in-law, a father-in-law, a maternal uncle, an ascetic, a Brahman who maintains the five fires, a pupil, a kinsman; one who reverences his parents. A man should first employ the Brahmans first specified in the principal obsequial rite; and the others (commencing with the ministering priest) in the subsidiary ceremonies instituted to gratify his ancestors. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition - [Previous: 3.15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15.3) - [Next: 3.15.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15.5) - [Up: 3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15) ## Translations (2) - [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.3.15.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English - [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.3.15.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English ## Other recensions (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.15.4) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.15.4) · Pramāṇa