History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c34.229

v2.c34.229

If a man has no time for this lengthy tarpaṇa the Dharma-sindhu and other digests prescribe an extremely brief one, viz. he repeats two verses and offers water thrice. The verses are ‘may the gods, sages, pitṛs, human beings, from Brahmā up to a blade of grass, be satiated and also all the pitṛs, the mother and the maternal grand-father and the rest, may this water mixed with sesame be for the crores of families of bygone ages residing in the seven dvīpas from the world of Brahmā downwards’.