History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.s1.1.5

v3.c48.s1.1.5

252 if the householder's father be living he should not offer piṇḍas but should stop after he performs the homa. If he has²⁴³⁶ two fathers or grand-fathers or great-grand-fathers (owing to adoption or *niyoga*) he should take two names with reference to the piṇḍa offered to that ancestor. When the piṇḍas are placed on the line referred to above he invokes the piṇḍas with a formula 'Here you may regale yourselves, O pitṛs and may you partake according to your shares' (Vāj. S. II. 31).²⁴³⁷ Then he turns round and faces the north, sits down holding his breath till he feels exhausted, then again turns round and faces the piṇḍas and utters the invocation 'the pitṛs have regaled themselves and have partaken according to their shares' (Vāj. S. II. 31). He smells the boiled rice. Then he again offers water (*ninayana*) with the words 'Śundhantām &c.', (vide above p. 1087) on the line made with the sphya, he puts on the three piṇḍas one after another the unguents and collyrium respectively with the words 'asau abhyaṅkṣva' (you by name so and so father &c. apply the unguents) and 'asau aṅkṣva' (you so and so father, &c. put the collyrium in the eye). He should then place as garment on each of the piṇḍas the hem of a garment (daśā) or woolen tuft or a hair from his own body (the part above navel) if he is beyond fifty years of age with the words 'O pitṛs, this is the garment for you, may you not come in contact with any other (garment) than this' (Āśv. II. 7. 6).