Paithinasidharmasutra 5

English (machine translation) 5

Language: English

5.1

In both fortnights, the lunar days pierce the previous and subsequent lunar day / by three muhūrtas; this is recorded as a general rule.

5.2

The fifth, seventh, tenth, and thirteenth, / the first and ninth lunar days should be observed when facing [the next].

5.3

In a month devoid of a solar transit, he may or may not perform the first-fruits offering.

5.4

A wife may perform a vow for her husband, and a husband a vow for his wife; / when they are incapable, no breach of vow occurs on account of the other.

5.5

In chewing betel, sexual intercourse with a woman, and the consumption of meat, / no lapse of a vow occurs, provided he avoids the black pepper and ginger.

5.6

For those who died in an intercalary month, the annual ancestral rite / should be performed only in the intercalary month, but under no circumstances for others.

5.7

All Vedic and customary rites are declared to be in the twelfth month; / but in the thirteenth, they are all fruitless.

5.8

He who, having taken [food] from the cooking meant for the ancestors, performs the offering to all the gods, / that ancestral rite becomes demonic; it does not reach the ancestors.

The fathers are the Vasus, the grandfathers are the Rudras, the great-grandfathers are the Ādityas. The knowing one who thus sacrifices to the ancestors—the Vasus, the Rudras, and the Ādityas become pleased with him.

5.10

When a woman has died sonless, the husband should perform the sapiṇḍa rite; / her sapiṇḍīkaraṇa should be performed together with the mother-in-law and the rest.

5.11

Those sixteen ancestral rites that precede the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, / he should indeed perform those ancestral rites according to the rule for a single deceased.

5.12

Without having offered the sixteen ancestral rites, he should not perform the sapiṇḍana.

5.13

The six-monthly and annual ancestral rites should be on the preceding day; / the monthly ones, however, on their own day or on the twelfth.

5.14

The rites of the ball of rice and water for the ghost must be performed only in the first [intercalary/lunar] month; / but one who performs them in an intercalary month incurs corpse-impurity once again.

5.15

The dismissal is at the end of the year; according to some, in the ninth month.

5.16

During birth-impurity, having poured out a handful of water with the Sāvitrī [verse] and walked around sunwise, one should bow to the Sun. That much is to be done.

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Paiṭhīnasidharmasūtra — Paiṭhīnasi, Sanskrit