Manavashrautasutra 11.9.4
English (machine translation) 11.9.4
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Now, the supplement:
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The year is Prajāpati. His northern course [of the sun], the bright half of the month, the day, the morning—that belongs to the gods; midday belongs to men; the afternoon—that belongs to the fathers. Now, how the sacrifice is performed on both sides:
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Day after day he should perform an ancestral rite with food or with water,
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or even with milk, roots, and fruits, he should bring pleasure to the fathers.
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The aṣṭakā rites, the ancestral rite on parvan days, the dark fortnight, the two solstices,
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the availability of materials and brahmins—these are proclaimed as the times for an ancestral rite.
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At a marriage, at the birth of a son, at an offering to the fathers, at a soma sacrifice,
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at a sacred bathing place, and when a [worthy] brahmin has arrived—these are the six [occasions] while the father is living.
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At the after-aṣṭakā rite, upon arriving at Gayā, and on the day of death that occurs,
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a son should perform the ancestral rite for the mother even while the father is living.
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When the sun has entered the sign of Virgo, whatever sixteen days there are—
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they are equal to solemn sacrifices; what is given to the fathers [then] is imperishable.
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Beginning with the fifth lunar day of the dark fortnight: one desiring a son [should perform it] on the fifth; one desiring wealth on the sixth; one desiring cattle on the seventh; one desiring health on the eighth; one desiring splendour on the ninth; one desiring proper food on the tenth; one desiring prosperity on the eleventh; one desiring growth on the twelfth; one desiring fame on the thirteenth; one desiring health for one slain by weapons on the fourteenth; on the new-moon day, one desiring all wishes.
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One desiring nourishment should perform the ancestral rite with sesame seeds; one desiring prosperity with cakes; one desiring splendour with clarified butter, molasses, and sesame seeds; one desiring welfare, good fortune, or health, or one desiring all wishes, [should perform it] with milk-rice, rice with sesame, beans, curd, and barley gruel.
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Together with the brahmins invited on the preceding day, the fathers indeed enter;
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and the sacrificer during that night should live as a student of the Veda.
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Having given an ancestral rite and eaten of it, he who sets out on a journey—
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for that month his fathers eat, having dust for their food.
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If having given or eaten [at] an ancestral rite, / one engages in sexual intercourse,
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for that month his fathers / feed on semen.
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[Travelling on] a journey [after] an ancestral rite, he becomes a horse; / eating again, he becomes a crow;
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performing manual labor, he is born a servant; / having intercourse with a woman, a village pig.
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Two in the rite for the gods, three in the rite for the fathers, / or one in each [rite],
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he should feed, even if very wealthy; / he should not attach himself to vast expansion.
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Hospitable reception, place and time, / material requisites, and the excellence of the brāhmaṇas:
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these five vast expansion ruins; / therefore, let him not desire vast expansion.
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One should assiduously feed at an ancestral rite / a Ṛgvedic priest who has crossed over the Veda,
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or an adhvaryu priest who has reached the end of his Vedic branch, / or a Chāndoga (Sāmavedic singer) who has completed his study;
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one who maintains five fires, one who knows the Trisuparṇa, / one who knows the Triṇāciketa fire, one who knows the six auxiliary sciences,
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the offspring of a marriage by the Brahma rite, / and one who sings the Jyeṣṭhasāman;
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a maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, / a sister's son, a father-in-law, a teacher,
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a daughter's son, a son-in-law, a kinsman, / and an officiating priest and a sacrificer he should feed.
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At whose ancestral rite there do not eat / brāhmaṇas who have crossed over the Veda,
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unperformed that ancestral rite becomes; / it does not reach the fathers.
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At whose ancestral rite there do not eat / brāhmaṇas belonging to one's own Vedic branch,
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demonic that ancestral rite becomes; / it does not reach the fathers.
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One who knows the meaning of the Veda, an expounder, / one who is continually established as a student of the Veda,
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and a centenarian—these should be recognized / as brāhmaṇas who are purifiers of the assembly.
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If any one of these, being honored, / should eat at someone's ancestral rite,
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for his fathers there would be satisfaction / eternal, lasting seven generations.
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Sesame seeds protect from the sons of Diti; / darbha grass protects from the rākṣasas;
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therefore, they should be given in gifts / by one who desires prosperity for himself.
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